2Auburn University Shellfish Laboratory, School of Fisheries, Aquaculture, and Aquatic Sciences, Auburn University, 150 Agassiz Street, Dauphin Island, AL 36528, USA.
Department of Molecular Biosciences and LaMontagne Center for Infectious Diseases, The University of Texas at Austin, Austin, Texas, USA payne@utexas.edu.
International Centre of Excellence for Seafood Safety, Centre for Environment, Fisheries and Aquaculture Science, Weymouth, UK. Electronic address: craig.baker-austin@cefas.co.uk.
U.S. Food and Drug Administration, Division of Seafood Science and Technology, Gulf Coast Seafood Laboratory, 1 Iberville Drive, Dauphin Island, AL 36528, USA; Auburn University Shellfish Laboratory, School of Fisheries, Aquaculture, and Aquatic Sciences, Auburn University, 150 Agassiz Street, Dauphin Island, AL 36528, USA. Electronic address: vlp0006@auburn.edu.
Chylothorax is a known complication of postcardiac surgery and the most common cause of pleural effusion in neonates. Conservative management is usually adopted, including Nil-per-Oral (NPO), treatmen...
Empyema is a complication of talc-pleurodesis that may lead to further surgical intervention and death. Therefore, the present study's objective was to identify the risk factors for the development of...
Patients with malignant pleural effusion who underwent talc slurry pleurodesis at the present institution from January 2018 to January 2020 were retrospectively analyzed. Post-pleurodesis empyema was ...
Of the 86 patients identified for inclusion in the study, 62 were women (72%). Their mean age was 56.3±12.6 years. The median pleural drainage time was 9 days, and 20 patients (23.3%) developed empyem...
The study suggests that antibiotic therapy prior to talc slurry pleurodesis may increase the risk of developing empyema. Furthermore, pleurodesis should be considered with caution in patients with lon...
Recurrent primary spontaneous pneumothorax (PSP) is often managed with a wedge resection (or blebectomy) and either pleurectomy or pleurodesis. There is a conflicting data regarding which approach is ...
The PearlDiver Mariner Patient Claims Database was queried for patients aged 10-25 who were presented with PSP and underwent either pleurectomy or mechanical pleurodesis between 2010 and 2020. The pri...
Of 18,955 patients presenting with PSP, 5.1% (n = 968) were managed operatively with either pleurectomy (18.3%, n = 177) or mechanical pleurodesis (81.7%, n = 791). There was no difference in the rate...
There is no significant difference in recurrence based on type of procedure performed for recurrent primary spontaneous pneumothorax. However, reimbursement is higher following pleurectomy. Given the ...
Early water seal following minimally invasive pulmonary lobectomy has been shown to reduce chest tube duration and postoperative length of stay (LOS). We evaluated chest tube duration and postoperativ...
We identified adult patients undergoing VATS pleurodesis from August 2013 to December 2021. The chest tube protocol was changed in January 2017 such that patients were placed to water seal on the morn...
A total of 488 patients underwent VATS pleurodesis during the study period (Group 1: 329 patients; Group 2: 159 patients). The median age was 61 y (interquartile range [IQR] 49-68), 51% were females, ...
Development of a standardized protocol to water seal chest tubes on postoperative day 1 following VATS pleurodesis is associated with reduced chest tube duration and LOS without an increase in postope...
A well-recognized therapy to improve the symptoms of patients with malignant pleural effusion (MPE), indwelling pleural catheters (IPCs) can also achieve spontaneous pleurodesis. Chemical pleurodesis ...
The aim of this study was to evaluate if anticoagulation can interfere with successful spontaneous pleurodesis in patients treated with IPC....
This was a cohort study of all patients with MPE treated with IPC. The primary objective was to determine if anticoagulant use after IPC placement decreased the rate of spontaneous pleurodesis. The se...
Of the included 410 patients, 210 patients (51.2%) achieved pleurodesis and had their IPC removed. We found no association between anticoagulation and likelihood of pleurodesis. Multivariate analyses ...
We failed to demonstrate an association between anticoagulation and pleurodesis. We found that better performance status and chemotherapy or radiotherapy after IPC placement can increase the rate of p...
Idiopathic nephrotic syndrome is one of the most common chronic renal disorders in children. Associated bilateral pleural effusion is common due to the transudative process as a result of hypoalbumine...
The search for an inexpensive agent for chemical pleurodesis in malignant pleural effusion (MPE) continues. We aimed to compare the efficacy and safety of iodopovidone versus doxycycline for pleurodes...
We randomized consecutive subjects with recurrent symptomatic MPE (1:1) to undergo pleurodesis with either doxycycline or iodopovidone administered through an intercostal tube. The primary outcome was...
We randomized 52 and 58 subjects to receive either doxycycline or iodopovidone. The mean (standard deviation [SD]) age of the study population (51% women) was 54.1 (13.6) years. Lung cancer (≥ 60%) wa...
Iodopovidone was not superior to doxycycline for pleurodesis in MPE. TRIAL REGISTRATION NUMBER/DATE: clinicaltrials.gov (NCT02583282) / October 22, 2015....
Recurrent primary spontaneous pneumothorax (PSP) is routinely treated by video-assisted thoracoscopic (VATS) talc pleurodesis (with or without localized resection of macroscopic bullous disease). Ther...
Patients who underwent a VATS talc pleurodesis (with or without localized resection of macroscopic bullous disease) for the treatment of their second or subsequent PSP or a PSP were followed for recur...
New contralateral pneumothorax occurred in 7 patients (11.1%) in the talc pleurodesis plus wedge resection group and 2 (1.8%) in the talc pleurodesis only group. There was one case of recurrent ipsila...
Video-assisted thoracoscopic (VATS) talc pleurodesis (and lung resection for macroscopic bullous disease) is a durable treatment for recurrent PSP. Patients with macroscopic disease have a significant...
Primary spontaneous pneumothorax (PSP) commonly occurs in lean, tall, male children and adolescents. To reduce recurrence rates of PSP, chemical pleurodesis could be helpful for patients undergoing vi...
It is a retrospective observational study in a single center, between 2014 and 2020, enrolled 48 (8 females) pediatric PSP patients with persistent air leakage at the mean age of 16.3 ± 1.1 years to r...
The OK-432 group had longer operation time (118.6 ± 35.6 vs. 96.5 ± 23.3 min; p < 0.05) and higher proportion of postoperative fever (75.0% vs. 28.5%; p = 0.015) than the standard group. No serious ad...
It was the first study that focused on the addition of intraoperative OK-432 pleurodesis for PSP with persistent air leakage in children and adolescents receiving VATS. It demonstrated the efficacy wi...
Retrospective review, therapeutic study, Level III....
In many cases, pleurodesis is the only treatment available for the treatment of malignant pleural effusion (MPE), and in the case of excessive daily pleural effusion, its therapeutic effect may be red...
This study was a single-center, placebo-controlled, and triple-blind, randomized trial designed to investigate the therapeutic effects and safety of octreotide in patients with MPE in Tehran, Iran, fr...
A total of 46 patients (23 in the octreotide group and 23 in the placebo group) with MPE was included in this study. Our findings demonstrated that adjunctive treatment with subcutaneous octreotide in...
Our findings demonstrated that adjunctive treatment with subcutaneous octreotide increases the efficacy of pleurodesis with talc powder without any significant side effects. Future studies with a larg...
Iranian Registry of Clinical Trials, IRCT20210915052492N1. Registered 11 October 2021 - Retrospectively registered, https://www.irct.ir/trial/58776 ....
