Safety of Thoracoscopy in Patients With High Risk

Medical thoracoscopy can be performed for diagnostic as well as therapeutic purposes. Thoracoscopy in the diagnosis of pleural diseases is highly sensitive for detecting pleural neoplasia with negative pleural fluid cytology and in the diagnosis of tuberculosis. The indication of thoracoscopy in patients with pleural effusion has been optimized. In some studies medical thoracoscopy has been claimed a useful diagnostic tool with a very low rate of complications. However the investigators do not know its safety on high risk patients. Because many patients having suspected malignancy have bed conditions due to other health problems such as coronary heart diseases, COPD, arrythmia, hypoxemia. In this study the investigators aimed to test the safety of medical thoracoscopy in the patients with high risk for complications.

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Key information

Conditions

Pleural Diseases Respiratory Tract Diseases

Age range

20 year–85 year

Sex eligibility

All sexes

Study type

Observational

Primary location

ESOGU

Eskişehir, Turkey (Türkiye)

Who can participate

Healthy volunteers accepted: No

Only the study team can determine whether someone qualifies for participation.

Inclusion criteria

Patients with exudative pleural effusion

Exclusion criteria

Patients without pleural effusion

Treatment and study plan

Primary outcomes

Number of Participants with Adverse Events as a Measure of Safety and Tolerability

Time frame: 6 years

All participants will have been followed for side effects of medical thoracoscopy. All side effects established in the special forms designed for this study. Side effects measured and recorded according to each characteristic such as pain, air leakege, pneumothorax, empyema, local infection, haemorragy etc.

Sponsors and collaborators

Lead sponsor

Eskisehir Osmangazi University

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Registry information

Important dates

Study start: 2002
Primary completion: 2009
Study completion: 2010
First posted: Sep 2, 2010
Registry last updated: Sep 25, 2012

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