or pleural effusion, is a condition in which the pleura, two large, thin layers of tissue that separate your lungs from your chest wall becomes inflamed. Not all patients will need drainage and ...

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However, in recurring cases of pleural effusion, as sometimes happens in cancer, there is a limit to the procedure frequency. Usually recommended to drain 3 times a week, but may vary from person ...

Objective: To determine the comparative effectiveness of common pleural drainage procedures for treatment of pneumonia complicated by parapneumonic effusion (ie, complicated pneumonia).

We suspect that patients with more extensive local disease (ie, loculated effusions ... misclassification of the method of initial pleural drainage may have occurred. Patients transferred from ...

A local randomised feasibility trial comparing chest tube drainage to therapeutic aspiration in infected pleural effusions. This study is not yet published. A national randomised controlled trial ...

TAPPS* A national randomised controlled trial comparing the effectiveness of chest drain and talc slurry with medical thoracoscopy ... pleurodesis in patients with complicated malignant pleural ...