Use of a tunnelled pleural catheter for the management of refractory hepatic hydrothorax: A new therapeutic option

Respiration

Volumn 80, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 348-352

  Mercky, Pascale ^a   Sakr, Lama ^b   Heyries, Laurent ^a   Lagrange, Xavier ^a   Sahel, José ^a   Dutau, Hervé ^b  

^a HÔPITAL DE LA CONCEPTION   (France)

^b HÔPITAL SAINTE MARGUERITE   (France)

Author keywords

Hepatic hydrothorax; Pleural catheter; Pleural effusion; Pleural transudate; PleurX

Indexed keywords

FUROSEMIDE; SPIRONOLACTONE;

ADULT; ARTICLE; ASCITES; BLOOD CLOTTING DISORDER; CASE REPORT; CATHETER REMOVAL; CELLULITIS; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; HYDROTHORAX; INDWELLING CATHETER; LIVER CIRRHOSIS; METHICILLIN RESISTANT STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS INFECTION; PLEURA EFFUSION; PLEURODESIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SODIUM RESTRICTION; THROMBOCYTE DISORDER; TRANSJUGULAR INTRAHEPATIC PORTOSYSTEMIC SHUNT; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

CATHETERIZATION; CATHETERS, INDWELLING; FEMALE; HUMANS; HYDROTHORAX; LIVER CIRRHOSIS; MIDDLE AGED;

EID: 77957002847     PISSN: 00257931     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000282493     Document Type: Article

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