Medical Thoracoscopy
Role of medical Thoracoscopy in the Management of Multiloculated Empyema
... In countries where tuberculosis is endemic, it is very important to differentiate between the two most com- mon causes of exudative pleural effusion that are malig- nancy and tuberculosis, as their treatment and ...
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The Value of Medical Thoracoscopy done at the Government Hospital of Thoracic Medicine, Tambaram sanatorium; In cases of Hemorrhgic Pleural Effusions
... In fifteen patients who had loculated pleural effusion medical thoracoscopy was done but were successful in only 6 cases. For pneumothorax five were successes out of six procedures after a mean follow up ...
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Malignant pleural mesothelioma: diagnostic value of medical thoracoscopy and long-term prognostic analysis
... biopsy. Medical thoracoscopy (MT) re- fers to the examination of the pleural space, and this proced- ure has been well documented to be highly sensitive of 87% – ...
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Intra-patient comparison of parietal pleural biopsies by rigid forceps, flexible forceps and cryoprobe obtained during medical thoracoscopy: a prospective series of 80 cases with pleural effusion
... Medical thoracoscopy with rigid single-port-of-entry technique was performed in the endoscopy suite under local anesthesia and sedation as described elsewhere ...
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Diagnostic Yield of Medical Thoracoscopy in Undiagnosed Pleural Effusion
... This study included all patients referred to Masih Daneshvari Hospital in Tehran, Iran, from June 2013 to April 2015 with undiagnosed pleural effusion despite primary tests, such as thoracocentesis, biochemical and ...
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Medical thoracoscopy for exudative pleural effusion: an eight-year experience from a country with a young population
... Categorical and continuous values were expressed as fre- quency (percentage) and mean ± SD or median. Descrip- tive statistics were used to summarize demographic and all other clinical characteristics of the study ...
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Diagnostic value of medical thoracoscopy in malignant pleural effusion
... The current guideline recommended that thoracent- esis and/or closed pleural biopsy can be used as the first diagnostic steps in the diagnosis of MPE [6]. However, these procedures usually do not work when pleural effu- ...
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Safety and complications of medical thoracoscopy in the management of pleural diseases
... When performed by experienced physicians under local anesthesia and moderate sedation, medical thoracoscopy is considered an overall safe procedure [12–14]. Complications of MT can be divided into major and ...
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Medical thoracoscopy in evaluation of undiagnosed pleural effusion
... The study was a prospective, non-randomized study conducted at Govt chest diseases hospital Srinagar from December 2016 to July 2018 on usefulness of medical thoracoscopy in undiagnosed pleural effusions. ...
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Diagnostic yield of medical thoracoscopy in exudative pleural effusions in a region with high tuberculosis burden
... Olympus Medical, Japan) or rigid endoscope (Karl Storz Endoscope, Tuttlinggen, Germany) with an optical forceps and suction was used in our cohort at the discretion of the ...
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RESEARCH ARTICLE The diagnostic role of video-assisted thoracoscopic surgery in exudative pleural effusion and follow-up results in patients with nonspecific pleuritis
... with medical thoracoscopic biopsies in undiagnosed exudative PE ...in medical thoracoscopy (MT) than in VATS in the follow-up period of patients with nonspecific pleuritis in long-term ...
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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
... Methods and analysis: 330 patients with a confirmed MPE requiring intervention will be recruited from UK hospitals. Patients will be randomised (1:1) to undergo either small bore (<14 Fr) Seldinger chest drain ...
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Original Article The efficacy of enhanced recovery after surgery for the perioperative care of lung cancer patients with thoracoscopy
... gle-port thoracoscopy, the patients showed sig- nificantly reduced pain scores, a shorter time to chest drainage tube removal, and shorter hos- pital stays ...
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Perirectal injection of imaging materials for computed tomographic lymphography and near infrared fluorescent thoracoscopy in cats
... A thoracoscopy enables the direct observation of the thoracic duct, however, variability in the lo- cation of the thoracic duct between the animals means it may be difficult to locate it without the in- formation ...
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Prophylactic irradiation of tracts in patients with malignant pleural mesothelioma : an open-label, multicenter, phase III randomized trial
... Comparison of PIT and SMART Trial Protocols Characteristic PIT SMART Sample size 374 203 Open thoracotomy No Yes Thoracoscopy Yes Yes Inclusion criteria Large-bore chest tubes $ 20 F Yes[r] ...
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Non medical Use of Analgesics among Medical Students
... with medical students non-medical use of medication (Zacny, ...Egyptian medical university students, and the potential predictors linked with self medication in Egyptian medical students is ...
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Original Article Thoracoscopy-assisted mini-open approach for resection of neurogenic tumors arising at the thoracic apex
... Complete surgical excision was achieved in all patients by the same spine surgery team. In 15 patients, gross total resection was achieved through a thoracoscopy-assisted mini-open approach. Three patients also ...
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A Study of Carcinoma Oesophagus: A Surgical Audit
... PET Non invasive Detects primary, nodal and distant metastasis Here mainly to detect distant metastasis Minimal invasive surgical staging Video assisted thoracoscopy Laparoscopy Broncho [r] ...
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The utilization of peer feedback during collaborative learning in undergraduate medical education: a systematic review
... There are many advantages to using peer feedback in the medical school curriculum. One advantage is that it can provide a valuable and unique perspective regarding the overall performance of students [5]. Compared ...
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Our experience of teaching value education to medical students in rural medical college
... orient medical students to MBBS programme, and provide them with requisite knowledge, communication (including electronic), technical and language skills ...
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