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Maligni plevralni izlivi - paliativni načini zdravljenja = Malignant pleural effusions - palliative methods of the treatment

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  • "Malignant pleural effusions - palliative methods of the treatment"@sl

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  • "Malignant pleural effusion is a serious and frequent complication of different carcinomas. It causes pain and irritating cough due to the pressure to the lungs and therefore significantly reduces the quality of the remaining life of the patients. The current practice uses numerous more or less aggressive palliative methods for the treatment of this effusion. The most frequent among them is the chemical pleurodesis with talc; however, it is not efficient enough when the pH value of the malignant pleural effusion is lowered below 7.3 due to carcinomatous or fibrous changes of the pleura (efficacy is defined as a permanent abolishment of the pleural effusion). In recent years the Department for Thoracic Surgery of the Maribor Teaching Hospital has developed a new palliative method in treating malignant pleural effusions - a thoracoscopic mechanical pleurodesis, which turned out to be a safe and successful palliative method, especially at pH values of the malignant pleural effusion below 7.3. Although both - the chemical and mechanical pleurodesis - are equally successful, the chemical pleurodesis with talk represents a more useful palliative method at pH values of the malignant pleural effusion above 7.3 as it is very simple to use. However, in this group of patients, the thoracoscopic mechanical pleurodesis has proved to be an indisputable method, particularly in treating cytologically or histologically uncomfirmed malignant pleural effusions and suspected scarring in the pleural space."@sl
  • "Maligni plevralni izliv je težek in pogost zaplet malignomov različnih lokacij, ki povzroča bolnikom zaradi pritiska na pljuča dihalne težave, dražeč kašelj in bolečine in jim tako bistveno slabša kakovost preostanka življenja. V praksi se uporabljajo številne bolj ali manj agresivne paliativne metode za zdravljenje tega izliva, med njimi najpogosteje kemična plevrodeza s talkom, ki pa ni dovolj uspešna (uspešnost definiramo kot trajno odpravo malignega plevralnega izliva), ko se zmanjša pH malignega prevralnega izliva zaradi karcinomskih ali fibroznih sprememb plevre pod vrednost 7.3. V zadnjih letih smo na Oddelku za torakalno kirurgijo Splošne bolnišnice Maribor razvili novo metodo paliativnega zdravljenja malignih plevralnih izlivov, torakoskopsko mehansko plevrodezo, ki se je pokazala kot varna in uspešna paliativna metoda zdravljenja, še posebej pri vrednostih pH malignega plevralnega izliva pod 7.3. Pri vrednostih pH malignega plevralnega izliva nad 7.3 je kemična plevrodeza s talkom kljub enakovredni uspešnosti zaradi svoje enostavnosti uporabnejša paliativna metoda. Torakoskopska mehanska plevrodeza pa ima tudi v tej skupini bolnic svoje nesporno mesto, predvsem pri reševanju citološko ali histološko nepotrjenih malignih plevralnih izlivov in pri sumu na zarastline v plevralnem prostoru."@sl

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  • "Maligni plevralni izlivi - paliativni načini zdravljenja = Malignant pleural effusions - palliative methods of the treatment"@sl