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Pleurodesis Using Small Talc Particles Results in an Unacceptably High Rate of Acute Lung Injury and Hypoxia

Department of Thoracic Surgery, St. James University Hospital, Beckett St, Leeds, LS9 7TF United Kingdom

(Email: ryan.baron@doctors.org.uk).

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To the Editor:

We read with interest the article by Kuzniar and colleagues [1]. In a series of 84 patients undergoing video-assisted thoracoscopic surgery (VATS), talc pleurodesis the incidences of acute lung injury (ALI) and severe hypoxemia were 5.9% and 29.8%, respectively. Our experience in a series of 281 procedures is that these incidences are much lower. We report only a solitary case of acute lung injury. We . . . [Full Text of this Article]