Safety of Thoracoscopy in Patients With High Risk
- Conditions
- Pleural Diseases
- Registration Number
- NCT01193439
- Lead Sponsor
- Eskisehir Osmangazi University
- Brief Summary
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.
- Detailed Description
Not available
Recruitment & Eligibility
- Status
- COMPLETED
- Sex
- All
- Target Recruitment
- 355
- Patients with exudative pleural effusion
- Patients without pleural effusion
Study & Design
- Study Type
- OBSERVATIONAL
- Study Design
- Not specified
- Primary Outcome Measures
Name Time Method Number of Participants with Adverse Events as a Measure of Safety and Tolerability 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.
- Secondary Outcome Measures
Name Time Method
Trial Locations
- Locations (1)
ESOGU
🇹🇷Eskisehir, Turkey