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ArticleJournal of thoracic disease2017

Safe administration of intrapleural alteplase during pregnancy.

Heather Torbic, Hanine Inaty, Siva Raja, Humberto Choi

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Article in Journal of thoracic disease, 2017. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 2 papers.

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2citing papers in PubMed
0.2field-weighted citation impact, top 40% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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2 · The registry

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

2 citing papers in PubMed, 3 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

4 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Heather Torbic1Department of Pharmacy, 2Respiratory Institute, 3Department of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery, Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, OH, USA.
Hanine Inaty1Department of Pharmacy, 2Respiratory Institute, 3Department of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery, Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, OH, USA.
Siva Raja1Department of Pharmacy, 2Respiratory Institute, 3Department of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery, Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, OH, USA.
Humberto Choi1Department of Pharmacy, 2Respiratory Institute, 3Department of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery, Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, OH, USA.
Cleveland Clinic · US

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Instillation of intrapleural (IP) fibrinolytics has been used in patients with complicated parapneumonic pleural effusions to improve fluid drainage and decrease the need for surgical intervention. However, clinical trials have not included certain special populations such as pregnant females and there are currently no published case reports of this practice in this group. We describe the case of a 35-year-old female, G2P1 at 32 weeks of gestation, with a complicated pleural effusion due to influenza pneumonia with superimposed bacterial pneumonia. Her parapneumonic pleural effusion was successfully treated with intercostal tube drainage and IP alteplase [tissue plasminogen activator (tPA)] administration and systemic antibiotics with no harm to her or her fetus, sparing this patient from more invasive surgical procedures. This is the first reported case of successful IP tPA administration for a complicated parapneumonic pleural effusion in a pregnant patient.

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Alteplaseintrapleuralpleural effusionpregnancy

Identifiers

PMID29221347
PMCPMC5708495
OpenAlexW2752902803

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