Clinical trials: Pleural Infection Bacterial
Tuberculosis, Pleural Effusion
Efficacy Study of Thrice Weekly Directly Observed Treatment Short-Course Regimen in Tubercular Pleural Effusion
Tubercular pleural effusion is the second most common form of extrapulmonary tuberculosis (EPTB) seen in clinical practice after tuberculosis (TB) lymphadenitis.
- Trial name
- NCT01560078
- Where
- India
- Volunteers
- 360 people
- Sponsor
- All India Institute of Medical Sciences
Tuberculous Pleurisy
Drainage of Tuberculous Pleural Effusions
Tuberculous (TB) pleurisy can cause clinical symptoms and pleural fibrosis with resultant residual pleural thickening (RPT). Therapeutic thoracentesis or initial complete drainage in addition to anti-TB drugs have been tried to…
- Trial name
- NCT00524147
- Testing
- Pigtail drainage
- Where
- Taiwan
- Volunteers
- 64 people
- Sponsor
- Taipei Medical University Hospital
Pleural Effusion, Tuberculosis, Pleural
TBP Survey Among Respiratory Physicians
Tuberculosis is a major infectious disease with a high mortality burden in the Asia-Pacific region and worldwide. Among various types of extrapulmonary tuberculosis, tuberculous pleuritis (TBP) is amongst the most common…
- Trial name
- NCT06390969
- Testing
- Survey
- Where
- Hong Kong
- Volunteers
- 418 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- Chinese University of Hong Kong
Tuberculosis, Pleural
Diagnostic Utility of Mycobacterium Tuberculosis Cell-free DNA
Tuberculosis (TB) is one of the major global health threats and is the second leading infectious cause of death after COVID-19 in 2022.
- Trial name
- MYDNITE-2 (NCT06439810)
- Testing
- Mycobacterium tuberculosis (MTB) cell-free DNA (cfDNA)
- Where
- Hong Kong
- Volunteers
- 400 people
- Sponsor
- Chinese University of Hong Kong
Pleural Effusion
Minirigid Versus Conventional Rigid Thoracoscopy in Undiagnosed Pleural Effusions
Consecutive patients who are planned to undergo a medical thoracoscopy for obtaining pleural biopsies will be enrolled in the study.
- Trial name
- MICRO (NCT03449602)
- Testing
- Mini-thoracoscopy, Conventional rigid thoraoscopy
- Where
- India
- Volunteers
- 100 people
- Sponsor
- Post Graduate Institute of Medical Education and Research, Chandigarh
Mycoplasma Pneumoniae Pneumonia
Effects of Oral Steroid in Mycoplasma Pneumoniae Pneumonia
Mycoplasma pneumoniae is one of the most common causes of community-acquired pneumonia in children. The clinical course is typically self-limited and benign; however, rare cases of severe pneumonia can develop despite appropriate…
- Trial name
- NCT02618057
- Testing
- Prednisolone, Levofloxacin
- Where
- South Korea
- Volunteers
- 80 people
- Sponsor
- Seoul National University Hospital
Pleural Effusion, Pleurisy
Yield of Cryoprobe vs Flexible Forceps Pleural Biopsy
This is a prospective study to assess the yield of pleural biopsy obtained with the routine flexible thoracoscopic biopsy forceps versus that obtained with a flexible cryoprobe during semirigid thoracoscopy
- Conditions
- Pleural Effusion, Pleurisy, Tuberculosis, Metastatic Malignancy
- Trial name
- COFFEE (NCT02500277)
- Testing
- Cryoprobe pleural biopsy first, Flexible forceps biopsy first
- Where
- India
- Volunteers
- 50 people
- Sponsor
- Post Graduate Institute of Medical Education and Research, Chandigarh
Tuberculosis, Tuberculous Pleurisy
Comparison the Level of CTGF Protein and Related Cytokine in Pleural Effusion
Connective tissue growth factor (CTGF) is known to be a fibrogenic cytokine, it could be expressed in various fibrosis diseases. But, recent research showed that CTGF also be considered to be a tumor suppressive gene.
- Conditions
- Tuberculosis, Tuberculous Pleurisy, Malignant Pleural Effusion, Empyema
- Trial name
- NCT00313066
- Where
- China
- Volunteers
- 80 people
- Sponsor
- Taichung Veterans General Hospital
Tuberculosis, Pleural, Pleural Biopsy
Diagnostic Utility of Mycobacterium Tuberculosis Cell-free DNA in Hong Kong
Tuberculosis (TB) is an endemic infectious disease in Hong Kong and a global health threat. Tuberculous pleuritis (TBP) is the most common form of extrapulmonary tuberculosis in China.
- Trial name
- MYDNITE-3 (NCT06646237)
- Where
- Hong Kong
- Volunteers
- 350 people
- Sponsor
- Chinese University of Hong Kong
Pulmonary Tuberculosis, Genetic Variants of Host
Toll-like Receptor 2 Gene Polymorphism, Serum Cytokines and Susceptibility to Disease Severity or Treatment Response of Pulmonary Tuberculosis
Infection with Mycobacterium tuberculosis remains at epidemic levels globally. Innate and adaptive immune responses evolve as protective mechanisms against mycobacterial infection in humans.
- Conditions
- Pulmonary Tuberculosis, Genetic Variants of Host, Immune Response of Host
- Trial name
- NCT00772408
- Where
- 2 sites in Taiwan
- Volunteers
- 300 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- Chang Gung Memorial Hospital
Parapneumonic Effusion
Metagenomic Study in Parapneumonic Effusion
Objective: To identify known and unknown bacterial pathogens in patients with pleural infections using a combination of conventional culture and next-generation sequencing approaches.
- Trial name
- NCT05394220
- Testing
- 16S rRNA gene amplicon sequencing
- Where
- Hong Kong
- Volunteers
- 115 people
- Sponsor
- Chinese University of Hong Kong
To Investigate Diagnostic Aid of the Inflammation and Apoptosis-associated Markers and Apoptosis Pattern of PE Neutrophil for Tuberculous Pleurisy
Evaluating the Diagnostic Validity of Inflammation-associated Markers for Tuberculous Pleurisy
1. To investigate the difference of PE inflammation/apoptosis-associated markers between TB pleurisy and non-TB pleurisy 2. To investigate the difference of neutrophil apoptosis in exudative PE between TB pleurisy and non-TB…
- Trial name
- NCT01685099
- Where
- Taiwan
- Volunteers
- 200 people
- Sponsor
- National Taiwan University Hospital
Empyema, Pleural, Thoracic Empyema
Comparison of Lung Expansion After Uniportal and Multiportal Video Assisted Thoracic Surgery for Stage II Post Pneumonic Bacterial Empyema Thoracis
It was a parallel-armed randomized control study in which 160 participants admitted to the Thoracic Surgery Department, Services Hospital, Lahore were included.
- Trial name
- NCT07137507
- Testing
- Uniportal VATS, Multi-portal VATS
- Where
- Pakistan
- Volunteers
- 160 people
- Sponsor
- University of Health Sciences Lahore
Pleural Infection, Pleural Diseases
The Oxford Pleural Infection Endotyping Study
Pleural infection is a severe disease with increasing incidence worldwide. The subphenotypes of pleural infection remain unknown.We designed a study to endotype the disease and assess the association between patient phenotype…
- Conditions
- Pleural Infection, Pleural Diseases, Pleural Effusion, Pleural Empyema
- Trial name
- TORPIDS-2 (NCT06513689)
- Where
- United Kingdom
- Volunteers
- 80 people
- Sponsor
- University of Oxford
Pleural Infection, Pleural Infection Bacterial
The Microbiology of Pleural Infection
Pleural Infection (PI) is a common, severe and complicated disease with considerable morbidity and mortality. (1,2) The knowledge of pleural infection microbiology remains incomplete.
- Trial name
- TORPIDS (NCT04569110)
- Testing
- Not applicable. Observational study. Retrospective analysis of samples.
- Where
- United Kingdom
- Volunteers
- 251 people
- Sponsor
- University of Oxford
Pleural Infection Bacterial, Pleural Infections
Once Daily Intrapleural Enzyme Therapy in Complicated Parapneumonic Effusion or Empyema
The goal of this clinical trial is to find out if giving certain medications once a day works just as well as giving them twice a day to treat infections around the lungs (called pleural infections).
- Conditions
- Pleural Infection Bacterial, Pleural Infections, Pleural Infections and Inflammations, Empyema, Pleural
- Trial name
- ONLY ONCE (NCT07095361)
- Testing
- Fibrinolytic once daily, Fibrinolytic twice daily, DNA degradation once daily
- Where
- 11 sites in United States
- Volunteers
- 270 people
- Sponsor
- University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
Aspergillosis, Immunosuppression
Evaluation of Performance of An Aspergillus PCR in Tissue and Pleural Effusion Samples of Immunocompromised Patients
Although being a frequent and lethal complication in patients (pts) with hematologic malignancies, diagnosing invasive aspergillosis (IA) still remains a difficult issue as culture-based methods show low sensitivity especially…
- Trial name
- NCT01902030
- Where
- 12 sites in Germany
- Volunteers
- 100 people
- Sponsor
- Heidelberg University
Pleural Effusion, Heart Failure
Comparing the Diagnostic Sensitivity and Specificity of Pleural Fluid N-Terminal Pro B-type Natriuretic Peptide (NT-proBNP) and Other Biochemical Gradient Criteria in Distinguishing Heart Failure and Non-heart Failure Related Pleural Effusions (CENTRE Study)
To assess the discriminative properties of pleural fluid (PF) N-terminal-proB-type-natriuretic-peptide (NTproBNP) levels in identifying heart failure (HF)-associated pleural effusions (PE).
- Conditions
- Pleural Effusion, Heart Failure, Malignant Neoplasm, Fluid Overload
- Trial name
- NCT05797649
- Where
- Hong Kong
- Volunteers
- 160 people
- Sponsor
- Chinese University of Hong Kong
Tuberculosis, Pleural Effusion
Continuous Positive Airway Pressure on Tuberculosis Pleural Effusion
Tuberculosis (TB) remains as an important public health problem worldwide. Pleural tuberculosis is the most prevalent form of extrapulmonary presentation in immunocompetent patients.
- Trial name
- NCT00560521
- Testing
- CPAP
- Where
- Brazil
- Volunteers
- 20 people
- Sponsor
- Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro
Pleural Empyema, Tuberculosis (TB)
The Role of Decortication in Complex Empyema Cases: Multidrug Resistance and Tuberculosis at the Forefront
Empyema is a problem that thoracic surgeons deal in everyday practice. The main goal of treatment is evacuating the pus and fibrin deposits in the thoracic cavity for complete lung expansion.
- Conditions
- Pleural Empyema, Tuberculosis (TB), Bacterial Sepsis
- Trial name
- NCT07167823
- Testing
- Decortication
- Where
- Pakistan
- Volunteers
- 350 people
- Sponsor
- University of Health Sciences Lahore