Related Experiment Videos
Octreotide for treatment of postoperative chylothorax
1Division of Pediatric Cardiology, Department of Pediatrics, Grantham Hospital, The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, People's Republic of China.
The Journal of Pediatrics
|July 11, 2001
Abstract:
Two infants who developed chylothorax after surgery for congenital heart disease were treated successfully with subcutaneous octreotide. Apart from reducing chyle output, octreotide decreased the triglyceride content of the pleural fluid.