ReviewJournal of thoracic disease2024
Indwelling pleural catheter infection and colonisation: a clinical practice review.
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- A rare complication of pleural drainage: Communicating lung and subcutaneous abscesses.Radiology case reports · 2026Article
- Contemporary Pleural Drainage in Adult Practice: Image-Guided Techniques, Procedural Safety, Training Standards, and Malignant Pleural Effusion Management.Journal of clinical medicine · 2026Review
- Causative pathogens and clinical outcomes of pleural infection in patients without and with indwelling pleural catheters - a retrospective study from a Danish pleural clinic.European clinical respiratory journal · 2026Article
- Right-Sided Bilothorax With Secondary Empyema: A Rare Thoracic Manifestation.Case reports in pulmonology · 2026Article
- Indwelling pleural catheter-associated infection caused byBreathe (Sheffield, England) · 2026Article
- What is new in pleural infections?Breathe (Sheffield, England) · 2026Review
- Efficacy of a Fully Implantable Pleural Device in the Management of Complex Pleural Effusions.Current oncology (Toronto, Ont.) · 2025Article
- Impact of educational videos and user guide on indwelling pleural catheter caregiver training and unplanned healthcare encounters.BMJ open quality · 2025Article
- Bedside to bench and back again-translational research in interventional pulmonology.Current opinion in pulmonary medicine · 2025Review
- Unusual Serratia marcescens pleural infection in secondary spontaneous pneumothorax: a case report.Journal of Yeungnam medical science · 2025Article
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Abstract
Indwelling pleural catheters (IPCs) are used in the management of malignant pleural effusions, but they can become infected in 5.7% of cases. This review aims to provide a summary of the development of IPC infections and their microbiology, diagnosis and management. IPC infections can be deep, involving the pleural space, or superficial. The former are of greater clinical concern. Deep infection is associated with biofilm formation on the IPC surface and require longer courses of antibiotic treatment. Mortality from infections is low and it is common for patients to undergo pleurodesis following a deep infection. The diagnosis of pleural infections is based upon positive IPC pleural fluid cultures, changes in pleural fluid appearance and biochemistry, and signs or symptoms suggestive of infection. IPCs can also become colonised, where bacteria are grown from pleural fluid drained via an IPC but without evidence of infection. It is important to distinguish between infection and colonisation clinically, and though infections require antibiotic treatment, colonisation does not. It is unclear what proportion of IPCs become colonised. The most common causes of IPC infection and colonisation are
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