pleurodesis

Those who have undergone pleurodesis may need two to three weeks off work to recover.

In some cases of pleural effusion, you may need pleurodesis.

Numerous chemical agents can cause the irritation necessary to produce pleurodesis.

Some of these patients required thoracentesis or pleurodesis to treat the effusions.

This kind of fusion is called pleurodesis.

The ideal agent would produce effective pleurodesis with minimal cost and minimal side effects.

Standard treatment involves chest tube insertion and pleurodesis.

Surgical pleurodesis may be performed via thoracotomy or thoracoscopy.

If the chest tube becomes clogged, fluid will be left behind and the pleurodesis will fail.

Generally the tube is in for about 30 days and then it is removed when the space undergoes a spontaneous pleurodesis.

Pleurodesis: A surgical procedure that uses chemicals or drugs to make a scar in the space between the layers of the pleura.

A low pleural fluid pH is associated with poorer survival and reduced pleurodesis efficacy.

Chemical pleurodesis is a painful procedure, so patients are often premedicated with a sedative and analgesics.

Moreover, surgical removal of parietal pleura is an effective way of achieving stable pleurodesis.

In medicine talc is used as a pleurodesis agent to prevent recurrent pleural effusion or pneumothorax.

It is used in pleurodesis (fusion of the pleura because of incessant pleural effusions).

Early application of surgical techniques such as pleural abrasion, pleurodesis, or pleurectomy must be avoided because these treatments might limit future lung transplantation.

Most responders successfully maintained pleurodesis when urokinase was followed by minocycline pleurodesis.

Symptomatic treatment to include drainage of effusions, chest tube pleurodesis, or thoracoscopic pleurodesis.

Tunneled pleural catheters allow up to 96% of patients to achieve symptom improvement, with spontaneous pleurodesis occurring on its own in up to 44% of patients.

Although pleural fibrosis is usually an undesirable event, it is commonly used therapeutically (pleurodesis) to control pleural effusions and pneumothoraces.

The surgical treatments usually involve pleurodesis (in which the layers of pleura are induced to stick together) or pleurectomy (the surgical removal of pleural membranes).

Heffner JE, Standerfer RJ, Torstveit J, et al.: Clinical efficacy of doxycycline for pleurodesis.

Results of chemical pleurodesis tend to be worse than when using surgical approaches, but talc pleurodesis has been found to have few negative long-term consequences in younger people.

Gravelyn TR, Michelson MK, Gross BH, et al.: Tetracycline pleurodesis for malignant pleural effusions.