NCT06319547

Comparing Outcome of Thoracocentesis and Pigtail Catheter Drainage in Treatment of Patients With Hepatic Hydrothorax

• Status: Unknown
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 100 (estimated)
• Sponsor: Sohag University · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: —
• Healthy volunteers: Accepted

Summary

Hepatic hydrothorax (HH) is a pleural effusion that develops in a patient with cirrhosis and portal hypertension in the absence of cardiopulmonary disease (Lv et al., 2018). Several factors are known to contribute to the development of effusion; the most accepted mechanism of which is the direct delivery of ascitic fluid from the peritoneal cavity to the pleural cavity by "positive" intra-abdominal pressure and a "negative" intrathoracic pressure of the pleural cavity through microscopic congenital diaphragmatic defects (Han et al., 2022).

Conditions

• Hepatic Hydrothorax

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
PROCEDURE	Thoracocentasis	patients will be submitted to diagnostic pleural fluid study, chest x-ray, liver function and blood picture

Timeline

• Start date: 2024-02-20
• Primary completion: 2025-02-01
• Completion: 2025-03-01
• First posted: 2024-03-20
• Last updated: 2024-03-20

Locations

1 site across 1 country: Egypt