Incidence Etiology and Pathogenesis Diagnostic Approaches Clinical Manifestations Imaging Techniques Diagnostic Thoracentesis Closed Pleural Biopsy Medical Thoracoscopy Bronchoscopy Surgical Biopsy Treatment Indications and Contraindications Therapeutic Thoracentesis Chemical Pleurodesis Doxycycline Bleomycin Talc Pleurodesis Talc Poudrage Talc Slurry Treatment of Pleurodesis Failure Other Trea...

BACKGROUND Patients with malignant pleural effusion have a limited life expectancy. An increase in pleural and oncological treatment options and more accurate prognostic evaluation may help individualize treatment strategies. The aim of this study was to identify the prognostic indicators of overall survival (OS) after video-assisted thoracic surgery (VATS) talc pleurodesis for malignant pleura...

PURPOSE Pleurodesis continues to play a central role in the management of pneumothorax. In our institute, a 50% glucose solution is used for pleurodesis. We retrospectively analysed the treatment effects of pleurodesis in patients with spontaneous pneumothorax in whom an operation was contraindicated because of underlying disease. METHODS 13 patients (18 cases) with spontaneous pneumothorax w...

BACKGROUND Talc pleurodesis is an effective treatment for malignant pleural effusion. We present a case of an asymptomatic hepatic laceration that occurred during pleurodesis in a breast cancer patient and led to hepatic tumor dissemination. DISCUSSION Pleurodesis is a relatively safe procedure, although previous studies have described malignant invasion of scar tissue. CONCLUSION To our kn...

Malignant pleural effusion (MPE) is a common complication of advanced cancer. The presence of MPE eliminates the possibility of radical cancer treatment, but palliative care plays an important role for these patients. Chemical pleurodesis is one of the options to avoid development of recurrent pleural effusions and thus palliate symptoms (2). In order pleurodesis to be successful, MPE should be...

BACKGROUND Talc pleurodesis has been widely used to control malignant pleural effusion; however, it is still not clear whether talc pleurodesis is more effective than other local therapies. We performed a meta-analysis to evaluate the efficacy and safety of talc pleurodesis in the management of malignant pleural effusion. METHODS PubMed, Embase, and Web of Science were searched for English-la...

INTRODUCTION Malignant pleural effusions are an important burden of malignant disease. Slurry talc pleurodesis remains one of the most common and effective therapeutic options. AIM Investigate the predictive factors related with the efficacy of this technique in malignant pleural effusions. METHODS Retrospective analysis of all pleurodesis performed during a 10-year period in a Pulmonology ...

Talcoma is a pleural mass which may develop as a rare complication following talc pleurodesis. Talc pleurodesis is performed to obliterate the pleural space to prevent recurrent pleural effusions or persistent pneumothoraces. The present report describes a case of a patient who developed enlarging pleural mass (talcoma) following talc pleurodesis.

Background: Pneumothorax is free to air in pleural space i.e. between visceral and parietal pleura. Among various treatment options for recurrent pneumothorax, one is chemical pleurodesis; intended to achieve a symphysis between parietal and visceral pleura, in order to prevent accumulation of air (pneumothorax) in the pleural space. Objective: Our objectives in this study were to evaluate the ...

Minocycline pleurodesis was performed on five infants with congenital chylothorax in our institutions. They could not achieve sufficient efficacy though they had received other conservative therapies. Four of the five cases obtained reduction of pleural effusion using the minocycline pleurodesis. We concluded that minocycline pleurodesis is a safe and an effective technique for congenital chylo...