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ArticleCureus2024

Lung Entrapment Secondary to Loculated Rheumatoid Effusions Treated With Alteplase and Dornase.

Sagar Kumar, Huma Akta, Davis Weidow, Matthew Clukies, Ji Young Lee

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Article in Cureus, 2024. 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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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

1 citing paper in PubMed.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

5 authors.

Sagar KumarPulmonary and Critical Care, University of South Alabama, Mobile, USA.
Huma AktaInternal Medicine, Franklin Primary Health Center, Mobile, USA.
Davis WeidowPulmonary and Critical Care, University of South Alabama, Mobile, USA.
Matthew ClukiesPulmonary and Critical Care, University of South Alabama, Mobile, USA.
Ji Young LeePhysiology and Cell Biology, Center for Lung Biology, College of Medicine, University of South Alabama, Mobile, USA.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Rheumatoid arthritis is a multisystemic inflammatory disease that can involve the respiratory system, including the pleural space. Most rheumatoid pleural effusions (PE) are incidentally found and do not require any treatment. Very rarely, however, they can become symptomatic and loculated, leading to lung entrapment or trapped lung. Surgical decortication remains the mainstay of management in such circumstances, although recent studies showed comparable efficacy of intrapleural fibrinolytics (alteplase and dornase alfa) in non-rheumatoid complicated effusions. We present a case of rheumatoid PE leading to lung entrapment successfully treated with intrapleural fibrinolytics without complications and good clinical status at six-month follow-up.

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alteplase (tpa)chest tube drainagedornase alfaentrapped lungloculated pleural effusionrheumatoid arthritis

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PMID39258099
PMCPMC11386437

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