Pleural disease is a common presentation and spans a heterogeneous population across
broad disease entities; a common feature is the requirement for interventional procedures …

Establishing the etiology of exudative pleural effusions in the setting of an unrevealing
pleural fluid analysis often requires biopsies from the parietal pleura. While closed pleural …

Background: Medical thoracoscopy (MT) performed either with rigid or the semirigid
thoracoscope has been shown to have diagnostic accuracy superior to closed-blind pleural …

Background The study aim is to compare the diagnostic yield, safety, and cost of outpatient
awake thoracoscopy (AT) with video-assisted thoracoscopic surgery (VATS) pleural biopsy …

Abstract Objectives Pressurized IntraThoracic Aerosol Chemotherapy (PITAC) is a minimally
invasive cancer-directed therapy for patients with malignant pleural effusion (MPE) and/or …

Background This study aims to compare the safety and diagnostic accuracy of awake and
intubated video-assisted thoracoscopic surgery in the diagnosis of pleural diseases …

Background. Many centers performing medical thoracoscopy (MT) to diagnose pleural
disease will insert a chest tube and admit patients to hospital after the procedure, which is …

Pleuroscopy or medical thoracoscopy is the second most common utilized procedure after
bronchoscopy in the promising field of interventional pulmonology. Its main application is for …

As many as 25% of all patients undergoing invasive pulmonary procedures are receiving at
least one antiplatelet or anticoagulant agent. For those undergoing elective procedures, the …

Introduction: Medical pleuroscopy (MP) is an invasive technique that provides access to the
pleural space with a rigid or semi-rigid work instrument, allowing for visualization and the …