Hepatic hydrothorax – how would you manage it?

HIGHLIGHTS

• who: / and colleagues from the LaboratoryUniversity of have published the article: Hepatic hydrothorax - How would you manage it?, in the Journal: (JOURNAL)

SUMMARY

(13) reported successful pleurodesis with tetracycline and continuous positive airways pressure in six patients with hepatic hydrothorax; however, one of the patients died of infection of the pleural space. TIPS has been effective in relieving symptomatic hydrothorax in 60% to 80% of patients in four case series that included a total of 81 patients. More recently, in another case series, 14 of 24 patients with symptomatic hepatic hydrothorax had complete . . .

 



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