Comparison of efficacy of patients own blood pleurodesis versus doxycycline pleurodesis in the management of persistent air leak in patients with secondary spontaneous pneumothorax
Not Applicable
Completed
- Conditions
- Health Condition 1: J938- Other pneumothorax and air leak
- Registration Number
- CTRI/2020/09/027984
- Lead Sponsor
- o sponsor
- Brief Summary
Not available
- Detailed Description
Not available
Recruitment & Eligibility
- Status
- Completed
- Sex
- Not specified
- Target Recruitment
- 38
Inclusion Criteria
1 Age >18
2 Patients with secondary spontaneous pneumothoraxand Persistent Air leak grade 1- 2
Exclusion Criteria
1 Previous history of pleurodesis
2 Traumatic spontaneous pneumothorax
3 Patients with underlying haematological disorders- coagulopathies
4 Patients with hypotension and other cardiopulmonary disease
5Known case of allergy to doxycycline .
Study & Design
- Study Type
- Interventional
- Study Design
- Not specified
- Primary Outcome Measures
Name Time Method Autologous blood patch pleurodesis is a cheap,simple, well tolerated procedure with minimal side effects . If efficacy of Autologous blood patch pleurodesis is proven to be better or equal to theDoxycycline pleurodesis, it can be used as the pleurodising agent of choice in secondary spontaneous pneumothorax.Timepoint: Every day till 7th day after procedure
- Secondary Outcome Measures
Name Time Method The rate of complications after blood patch pleurodesis and doxycycline pleurodesis.Timepoint: Every day till 7th day after procedure