Breathe (Sheffield, England)
Peri-procedural cardiac arrest at medical thoracoscopy in a patient with pleural mesothelioma causing resultant heart failure and an intractable pleural effusion.
Gemma Hood, Samuel Lakey, Elizabeth Turnbull, Avinash Aujayeb
Published: 202510.1183/20734735.0175-2025
Abstract
Open AccessTension hydrothoraces can cause significant morbidity and even mortality. The resultant heart failure caused the development of an intractable effusion and hyponatraemia which led to the patient's death. https://bit.ly/4m6jGjj.