Indwelling Pleural Catheters for Patients with Hematologic Malignancies. A 14-Year, Single-Center Experience.

ABSTRACT:

Rationale

Placement of an indwelling pleural catheter is an established modality for symptom relief and pleurodesis in the treatment of malignant pleural effusion. Concerns remain regarding possible infectious complications, risk of hemorrhage, and the rate of pleurodesis with the use of pleural catheters in the treatment of hematologic malignancies.

Objectives

The goals of our study were: (1) to evaluate the safety and cumulative incidence of pleurodesis with indwelling pleural catheters for patients with hematologic malignancies, and (2) to evaluate overall survival of this cohort of patients with pleural effusions.

Methods

We performed a retrospective review of 172 patients with a hematologic malignancy who underwent placement of an indwelling pleural catheter betw

SUBMITTER: Faiz SA 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5566308 | biostudies-literature | 2017 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature