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Treatment of refractory, nonmalignant hydrothorax with a pleurovenous shunt
S Z Park1, J B Shrager, M S Allen
1Division of General and Thoracic Surgery, Mayo Clinic and Mayo Foundation, Rochester, Minnesota 55905, USA.
The Annals of Thoracic Surgery
|June 1, 1997
Abstract:
We present a case of long-term successful application of pleurovenous shunting for the management of pleural effusion. Intractable symptomatic hydrothorax developed as a result of transdiaphragmatic migration of hepatic ascites. After failure of traditional treatment by mechanical pleurodesis, a pleurovenous shunt was inserted. After 1 year of follow-up, the effusion is well controlled, and the shunt remains patent.