Thorax
Time to next procedure in patients with malignant pleural effusion undergoing aspiration: derivation and initial validation of the RED score.
Eleanor K Mishra, Helen Davies, Syed Hamza Abbas, Cheryl Hardy, Dominic T Beith, Dheeraj Sethi, Toshit Sapkal, Alguili Elsheikh, Asfandyar Yousuf, Emma L Hedley, Ellie Daly, Anand Sundaralingam, Dinesh Addala, Samantha A Jones, Lianne Castle
Published: 202610.1136/thorax-2025-223307
Abstract
INTRODUCTION: In patients with malignant pleural effusions (MPE), pleural fluid reaccumulates at variable rates following therapeutic aspiration. The aim of this study was to identify variables which predict time to next procedure and use them to dev…
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