Update on Management of Pleural Disease

摘要

Purpose of review The goal of this paper is to review and summarize the most recent updates in the management of both benign and malignant pleural diseases. Recent findings Multiple trials evaluating the use of non-surgical techniques for the management of pleural infection have been published in the last 5 years. Additionally, the use of tunneled pleural catheter (TPC) placement in the management of non-infectious recurrent pleural effusions is being increasingly studied. Finally, the separate use of TPC placement or talc pleurodesis as well as a combined rapid pleurodesis protocol involving both talc poudrage and TPC placement has been published in the area of symptomatic recurrent malignant pleural effusion. Exciting advances have been made in the field of pleural disease management. In this paper, we summarize the most relevant trials, provide a list of pertinent references for review, and discuss future research directions.