GuidelineThorax2003
BTS guidelines for the management of pleural infection.
Guideline in Thorax, 2003. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. It is linked to 3 registered trials, which are not on this map. Cited by 61 papers, 2 of them syntheses that pooled it.
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The trial behind it
Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.
Management of Parapneumonic Pleurisy Guided by an Early Pleural Ultrasound
Role of Ultrasound Elastography in Pleural Effusion
Predictors of Outcome in Patients With Pleural Infection at Sohag University Hospital
Who cites it
61 citing papers in PubMed, 2 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.
- Outcomes of intrapleural fibrinolytic and deoxyribonuclease therapy in pleural infection: a systematic review and meta-analysis.European respiratory review : an official journal of the European Respiratory Society · 2026Pooled it
- Guideline
- Biological effect of tissue plasminogen activator (t-PA) and DNase intrapleural delivery in pleural infection patients.BMJ open respiratory research · 2019Trial
- Clinical outcome of parapneumonic empyema in children treated according to a standardized medical treatment.European journal of pediatrics · 2014Trial
- Contemporary Pleural Drainage in Adult Practice: Image-Guided Techniques, Procedural Safety, Training Standards, and Malignant Pleural Effusion Management.Journal of clinical medicine · 2026Review
- No culture? No problem: Clinical utility and pitfalls of non-culture diagnostics for pneumococcal parapneumonic effusions.Frontiers in medicine · 2026Review
- Risk factors and prognostic predictors of recurrent bacterial empyema in patients after surgical treatment.BMC infectious diseases · 2025Article
- Clinical Implications of the Controlling Nutritional Status Score on Short-term Outcomes in Patients with Pleural Infection.Internal medicine (Tokyo, Japan) · 2023Article
- Efficacy of standardizing fibrinolytic therapy for parapneumonic effusion.Pediatric radiology · 2022Article
- "The Cold Steel of a Surgeon or Some Fool of a Physician?": The Debate Continues.Annals of the American Thoracic Society · 2022Article
- Development and validation of a prediction model for tuberculous pleural effusion: a large cohort study and external validation.Respiratory research · 2022Article
- Effectiveness and Safety of Real-Time Transthoracic Ultrasound-Guided Thoracentesis.Diagnostics (Basel, Switzerland) · 2022Article
- Retrospective case-control study on the outcomes of early minimally invasive pleural lavage for pleural empyema in oncology patients.Thoracic cancer · 2021Article
- Management of thoracic empyema in children: a survey of the Australia and New Zealand Association of Paediatric Surgeons (ANZAPS).Pediatric surgery international · 2021Article
- Cumulative radiation dose incurred during the management of complex pleural space infection.BMC pulmonary medicine · 2021Article
- Uniportal video-assisted thoracoscopy is a safe approach in patients with empyema requiring surgery.Journal of thoracic disease · 2020Article
- A review of pleural infection in Northumbria Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust.Clinical medicine (London, England) · 2020Review
- Pleural fluid glucose testing using a finger stick glucometer: a novel bedside test.Journal of thoracic disease · 2019Article
- Minimally invasive thoracic surgery for empyema.Breathe (Sheffield, England) · 2018Review
- Editorial on: current state of empyema management.Journal of thoracic disease · 2018Article
1 more citing papers are in PubMed but not listed here.
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