One hundred sixty patients with rapidly recurrent malignant pleural effusion were randomly assigned to intrapleural bleomycin (83 patients) or IFN (77 patients). A 9-French intrapleural catheter was ...

By actual weight and measurement the intrapleural blood loss was 3975 cc.¶; 4000 cc. of blood and 500 cc. of plasma were administered before and during operation.

Volume Controlled Ventilation Does Not Prevent Injurious Inflation During Spontaneous Effort Yoshida T, Nakahashi S, Nakamura MA, et al Am J Respir Crit Care Med. 2017 Feb 17. [Epub ahead of print] ...

Diagnosis Stage IV ovarian cancer with malignant ascites and pleural effusion. Management Tunneled pleural catheter and intrapleural adenoviral-mediated interferon β gene therapy.

Intrapleural t-PA–DNase therapy improved fluid drainage in patients with pleural infection and reduced the frequency of surgical referral and the duration of the hospital stay. Treatment with ...

The patients included underwent insertion of a tunneled intrapleural catheter (24 CH) under local anesthesia with the guidance of a portable ultrasound (B/M scan mode Signos U/S scanner ...