Predictive Factors and Outcome in Medical Thoracoscopy

Completed

• Conditions: Pleuritis
• Interventions: Drug: sterile talc pleurodesis

• Registration Number: NCT02288065
• Lead Sponsor: KU Leuven

Brief Summary

Retrospective survey for factors predicting the outcome of medical thoracoscopy

Detailed Description

Retrospective survey for factors predicting the outcome of medical thoracoscopy in patients with malignant pleuritis

Study Timeline

• Study Start: 2014-01
• Study First Submitted: 2014-11-04
• Study First Submitted QC: 2014-11-07
• Study First Posted: 2014-11-11
• Status Verified: 2016-12
• Primary Completion: 2016-12
• Study Completion: 2016-12
• Last Update Submitted: 2016-12-29
• Last Update Posted: 2016-12-30

Recruitment & Eligibility

• Status: COMPLETED
• Sex: All
• Target Recruitment: 155

Inclusion Criteria

• progressive malignancy
• pleuritis

Exclusion Criteria

• respiratory failure
• unable to consent

Study & Design

• Study Type: OBSERVATIONAL
• Study Design: Not specified

Arm && Interventions

Group	Intervention	Description
responders	sterile talc pleurodesis	amelioration of dyspnea radiological amelioration after sterile talc pleurodesis
failed intervention	sterile talc pleurodesis	unchanged symptoms and radiology after sterile talc pleurodesis

Primary Outcome Measures

Name	Time	Method
Chest X-ray	3 months	radiological resolution of pleuritis; 3 level severity grading (A, B, C, with C as worst grade)

Secondary Outcome Measures

Name	Time	Method
time interval	12 months	survival in months

Trial Locations

Locations (1)

UZ Leuven; 🇧🇪 Leuven, Belgium