chemical pleurodesis
Chemical pleurodesis – a review of mechanisms involved in pleural space obliteration
... (MPE), chemical pleurodesis can also be applied in patients with other underlying ...although chemical pleurodesis is a palliative treatment that should be applied only in patients who cannot ...
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Results of chemical pleurodesis with mitoxantrone in malignant pleural effusion from breast cancer
... Patients and methods: Over a 5-year period, 114 patients with a known breast malignancy and having recurrent symptomatic pleural effusion referred for chest tube drainage and sclerotherapy were considered eligible. They ...
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The diagnostic significance and the assessment of the value of vascular endothelial growth factor as a marker for success of chemical pleurodesis in malignant pleural effusion
... Differential diagnosis of pleural effusion is an im- portant issue, since the treatment modalities and prognosis strictly depend on early and correct diag- nosis of the underlying etiology. We assessed the effi- cacy of ...
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Effect of Betadine in chemical pleurodesis in patients with recurrent malignant pleural effusion between 2013 and 2015
... involve pleurodesis with chemical substances such as talc powder, nitrogen mustard, bleomycine, tetracycline, betadine solution, and some surgical techniques like pleurectomy, pleuroperitoneal shunt, or ...
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Early and late morbidity and mortality and life expectancy following thoracoscopic talc insufflation for control of malignant pleural effusions: a review of 400 cases
... relief and can be associated either with the recurrence of pleural effusion (90% of patients will develop recurrence of effusion within 30 days) or to iatrogenic pneumotho- rax, pleural fluid loculation or contamination ...
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Acute pneumonitis consequent on pleurodesis with Viscum album extract: severe chest images but benign clinical course
... Chemical pleurodesis is widely recommended in the treatment of pulmonary air leak of different etiologies as well as malignant pleural effusions and ...Conventional chemical pleurodesis using ...
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Fibrin glue pleurodesis for pneumothorax in extremely preterm infants: a case report and literature review
... Unfortunately, there are not guidelines indicating the most appropriate approach to persistent PTX before considering more invasive procedures, such as pleurect- omy, chemical pleurodesis, and selective ...
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Indwelling pleural catheters for malignancy-associated pleural effusion: report on a single centre’s ten years of experience
... [7]. Chemical pleurodesis, especially with talc (TP), has been the sole definitive treatment op- tion for ...more pleurodesis failures occur ...
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Efficacy of nonsurgical tigecycline pleurodesis for the management of hepatic hydrothorax in patients with liver cirrhosis
... Chemical pleurodesis is one of the therapeutic tools to control hepatic ...tigecycline pleurodesis in patients with decompensated liver cirrhosis, who were not candidates for liver ...underwent ...
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Comparison of side effects of oxytetracycline and talc pleurodesis: an experimental study
... Background: Chemical pleurodesis is widely recommended in the treatment of refractory pleural effusion or pulmonary air leak of different ...Oxytetracycline pleurodesis in clinical practice has been ...
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Mitoxantrone pleurodesis to palliate malignant pleural effusion secondary to ovarian cancer
... Pleural effusion often occurs during the course of ovarian cancer. Chemical pleurodesis via bedside thoracostomy has been shown to be effective and has become a com- mon therapeutic approach. Using this ...
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Evaluating the efficacy of thoracoscopy and talc poudrage versus pleurodesis using talc slurry (TAPPS trial): protocol of an open-label randomised controlled trial
... of pleurodesis is considered the mainstay of treatment for recurrent ...induce chemical pleurodesis, although by far the most commonly used one in Europe and North America is talc, which has been ...
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Simultaneous Bilateral Spontaneous Pneumothorax: Report of 6 Adult Patients
... Background: Spontaneous pneumothorax (SP) refers to the spontaneous presence of air in the pleural sac(s) without iatrogenic or traumatic factors. The simultaneous bilateral SP (SBSP) is rare yet serious clinical ...
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Comparative study between indwelling pleural drain and intercostal drainage followed by pleurodesis in management of malignant pleural effusion
... causing pulmonary decompression and hence relieving dyspnea with improved quality of life. The mechanical drainage is done by repeated pleurocentesis, repeated ICD insertion and chemical pleurodesis by ...
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Prevention and control of sick building syndrom (SBS). Part 2
... hereinafter. Chemical-chemical interactions: detected chemical-chemical interac- tions present interactive influences among the parameters of the group of chemical risk factors ...
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Preliminary Findings on the Use of Targeted Therapy in Combination with Sodium Phenylbutyrate in Advanced Malignant Mesothelioma: A Strategy for Improved Survival
... NO PRIOR CHEMOTHERAPY OR RADIATION THERAPY 9 University Malignant Regional Right pleural Pleurodesis hospital mesothelioma radiology thickening January 20, January 2000 CT February 20, 2[r] ...
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Towards an easier pleurodesis: Ultrasound guided iodopovidone sclerotherapy in cirrhotic patients with hepatic hydrothorax
... of pleurodesis was significantly high- er in our patients with child B cirrhosis than those with child ...that pleurodesis is in gener- ally unsuccessful in child C cirrhosis because of rapid re- ...
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Chylothorax after surgery on congenital heart disease in newborns and infants -risk factors and efficacy of MCT-diet
... The thrombosis was secondary to chylothorax, as it had been ruled out at the beginning of treatment. This sug- gests that the thrombosis resulted from the massive pleural drain losses and coagulation factor imbalances. ...
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Interaction Fugacity Model for Water, Sediment and Seagrass
... Mathematical model for the simulation of the chemical movement in the estuary consists of 3 compartments which are water, sediment, and seagrass as shown in Figure 1.Two areas were selected in this study which is ...
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TD-DFT Calculations, Electronic Structure, NBO , NLO Analysis, Biological Activity, and Electronic Absorption Spectra of Some Novel Schiff base Derivatives
... Schiff bases are condensation products of primary amines with carbonyl compounds and they were first reported by Schiff [1] in 1864. Several studies [2- 8] showed that the presence of a lone pair of electrons in a sp 2 ...
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