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ArticleBMJ case reports2021

Successful treatment of a complex malignant pleural effusion with 1 mg alteplase instilled through a non-draining indwelling pleural catheter.

Nik Nuratiqah Nik Abeed, Mohamed Faisal, Boon Hau Ng, Andrea Ban Yu-Lin

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Article in BMJ case reports, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 1 paper.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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2 · The registry

The trial behind it

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

1 citing paper in PubMed, 1 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.

Nik Nuratiqah Nik AbeedRespiratory Unit, Department of Medicine, Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia Medical Centre, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-3283-649X
Mohamed FaisalRespiratory Unit, Department of Medicine, Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia Medical Centre, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia arabinose@hotmail.com.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-7526-361X
Boon Hau NgRespiratory Unit, Department of Medicine, Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia Medical Centre, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.
Andrea Ban Yu-LinRespiratory Unit, Department of Medicine, Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia Medical Centre, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.
University Kebangsaan Malaysia Medical Centre · MY

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Indwelling pleural catheter (IPC) is the treatment of choice in managing symptomatic recurrent malignant pleural effusion (MPE). Loculated effusions following insertion may occur due to infection, catheter malfunction or the inflammatory nature of MPE. Loculations may lead to ineffective drainage and make the IPC non-functional. We report a 56-year-old man with symptomatic loculated malignant pleural effusion with an IPC, successfully drained with a single dose of 1 mg recombinant tissue plasminogen activator alteplase. This is the lowest dose currently applied in our centre for efficient drainage and improvement of dyspnoea.

Indexed as

Catheters, IndwellingFibrinolytic AgentsHumansMaleMiddle AgedPleural Effusion, MalignantTissue Plasminogen ActivatorTreatment OutcomeFibrinolytic AgentsTissue Plasminogen Activatorempyemalung cancer (oncology)respiratory cancer

Identifiers

PMID33608330
PMCPMC7898836
OpenAlexW3131629605

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