Active clinical trials for "Pleural Effusion"

The primary objective is to evaluate the performance parameters of the proposed DLAD (Carebot AI CXR) in comparison to individual radiologists.

This is a retrospective, multicenter, descriptive analysis of patients with a diagnosis of chronic myeloid leukemia, treated with dasatinib for at least 45 days. The study will include 100 patients treated in different public centers in the Mexican Republic.

Perioperative changes in regional ventilation by pulmonary electrical impedance tomography and spirometry will be investigated in patients at risk for postoperative pulmonary complications. Those patients undergo abdominal and limb operations. In a pilot study arm electrical impedance tomography is tested in patients receiving osteosynthesis of serial rib fractures.

The investigators want to determine the incidence of malignant disease, type of malignant disease and overall survival in patients diagnosed with NSP after VATS.

During general anesthesia, functional residual capacity (FRC) is reduced. If the FRC is lower than the minimum volume required to maintain the opening of the airways, there is a derecruitment of the lung parenchyma, leading to the phenomenon of expiratory flow limitation (EFL). The Driving Pressure (DP) is the difference between the plateau pressure (Pplateau) and the Positive End-Expiratory Pressure (PEEP), and estimates the lung strain. The incidence of EFL and the importance of DP are not known in adult cardiac surgery, so it's necessary a study to assess both. The primary end-point of the study is to evaluate the correlation of DP and EFL with PPCs in adult cardiac surgery. The secondary end-point of the study is to evaluate: the mechanical ventilation time, the length of ICU and hospital stay, the rehospitalization and mortality. It will be a prospective, observational, non-pharmacological study. It will enroll 200 patients undergoing elective adult cardiac surgery.

The goal of this study is to evaluate the sensitivity and specificity of Electrical Impedance Tomography (EIT) as a bedside diagnostic tool for lung pathologies in patients who are mechanically ventilated. In electrical impedance tomography low amplitude, low frequency current is applied on electrodes, and the resulting voltage is measured and used to computed the electrical properties of the interior of the chest as they change in time. The computed properties are used to form an image, which can then be used for monitoring and diagnosis.

Pleural effusions occur commonly in patients recovering from cardiac surgery, however, the impact on outcomes is not well characterized. The purpose of this study is to characterize the outcomes of cardiac surgery patients with pleural effusions. All patients undergoing cardiac surgery between 2006 and 2019 were included in this observational, cross-sectional analysis using propensity matching.

The diagnosis, treatment and mechanism of pleural diseases

The value of lung ultrasound in the work up of pleural effusion (fluid in between the thin doublet layered film surrounding the lungs) is unknown. The researchers will perform a systematic lung ultrasound scan including a scan for extra thoracic metastasis (spread of cancer to other organs) in the lymphnodes of the neck and metastasis lever in 56 patients one-sided pleural effusion. The researchers will measure if the interventions change the diagnostic plan for the patient and leads to faster diagnostics of the underlying course.

The purpose of this study is to determine whether adding new methods of data visualization to routine clinical care will improve (i) surgical planning and (ii) surgical outcomes in patients with kidney and prostate tumors.