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The Annals of Thoracic Surgery, Vol 55, 364-366, Copyright © 1993 by The Society of Thoracic Surgeons

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Optimal pleurodesis: a comparison study

MA Bresticker, J Oba, J LoCicero 3d and R Greene
Section of General Thoracic Surgery, Northwestern University Medical School, Chicago, Illinois.

With the resurgence of thoracoscopy, there is renewed interest in less invasive methods of pleurodesis. We wished to compare in an animal model a variety of methods suggested in reports. The purpose of the study was to rank the effectiveness of each procedure against the standard mechanical pleurodesis. Twenty-five mongrel dogs (weight, 25 to 35 kg) underwent bilateral thoracotomy. Each animal was randomly assigned to receive two of the following methods of pleurodesis: tetracycline, talc, mechanical abrasion, neodymium: yttrium-aluminum garnet (Nd:YAG) laser (Hereus Inc, E. Rutherford, NJ) photocoagulation, and argon beam coagulator (ABC) (Beacon Lab, Bloomfield, CO) electrocoagulation of the parietal pleura. At evaluation at 30 +/- 2 days, the efficacy of pleurodesis was graded on a scale of 0 to 4, with 0 representing a complete absence of pleural symphysis and 4 the adhesion of more than one lobe to both the chest wall and mediastinum. Mean grade and standard deviation of each method were: talc, 3.0 +/- 0.67; mechanical, 3.0 +/- 0.82; tetracycline, 2.3 +/- 1.4; ABC, 1.5 +/- 0.97; and Nd:YAG laser, 0.7 +/- 0.95. Both the talc and mechanical methods were superior to either the Nd:YAG laser or the ABC (p < 0.01). In this study, neither the Nd:YAG laser nor the ABC proved efficacious in producing pleurodesis. Talc poudrage is the only method of pleural symphysis comparable with mechanical abrasion.


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