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Efficacy of nonsurgical tigecycline pleurodesis for the management of hepatic hydrothorax in patients with liver cirrhosis

Chemical pleurodesis is one of the therapeutic tools to control hepatic hydrothorax. Tetracycline and derivatives have been widely accepted as an effective and safe treatment for the purpose, but availability is the big concern. Tigecycline is an antibiotic derivative of tetracycline, which has demo...

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Autores principales: Yilmaz, Nevin, Zeybek, Arife, Tharian, Benjamin, Yilmaz, Ugur Eser
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Springer Berlin Heidelberg 2015
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4560132/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26366359
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s40792-015-0049-x