It can cause shortness of breath, coughing and chest pain. BD’s PleurX catheter system enables patients to drain pleural fluid at home instead of requiring them to return to the hospital for ...

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Training in procedures such as PleurX catheter placement, talc pleurodesis, tracheal dilation, rigid bronchoscopy, thoracoscopy, endobronchial stenting, balloon bronchoplasty, argon photocoagulation ...

The system includes a tunneled catheter connected to a drainage bag ... It was initially introduced in 2005 as PleurX and cleared only for use in malignant cases. A decade and a half later ...

The medical technology guidance says that the PleurX peritoneal catheter drainage system for vacuum-assisted drainage of treatment-resistant, recurrent malignant ascites should be considered for use ...