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1 From the Department of Radiology, St. Anthony Hospital, Denver
2 From the Department of Internal Medicine, St. Anthony Hospital, Denver
3 From the Department of Surgery, St. Anthony Hospital, Denver
Study objective: We report the results of image-guided catheter drainage with adjunctive enzymatic pleural debridment in the treatment of empyemas and other complicated pleural fluid collections.
Design: Retrospective review.
Patients: One hundred eighteen patients with complicated pleural fluid collections were treated with image-guided drainage. There were 79 empyemas, 27 sterile loculated parapneumonic effusions, 10 sterile hemothoraces, and 2 sterile postoperative exudative effusions. Forty-one patients had failed prior large-bore thoracostomy drainage. The estimated age of the effusions at the time of image-guided drainage ranged from 1 to 175 days with a mean estimated age of 13 days.
Interventions: Patients were treated with image-guided placement of one or more 12F to 16F chest drains. Adjunctive urokinase instillation was used in 98 cases. Urokinase (100,000 to 250,000 U/mL) was instilled in 20 to 240-mL aliquots and reaspirated in 1 to 4 h. One to four instillations were performed per day until drainage was complete.
Measurements and results: Drainage was successful in 111 cases (94%). Two patients died of sepsis with incomplete drainage. Five patients underwent decortication (three recovered and two died postoperatively). Fifty-three patients (45%) required placement of more than one drain. The mean duration of drainage was 6.3 days. Patients treated with pleurolysis required a mean of five instillations of urokinase. The mean total dose of urokinase used per case was 466,000 U. There were no complications.
Conclusion: Image-guided drainage with adjunctive pleural urokinase therapy is a safe and effective method of closed thoracostomy drainage of complicated pleural fluid collections and can obviate surgery in most cases.
Key Words: empyema • pleura • diseases • pleura • infection • pleura • interventional procedure • thorax • interventional procedure • urokinase
Submitted on November 15, 1994
Accepted on April 21, 1995
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