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Pleural effusion

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Therapy

Tuberculosis

There is no clear role for steroids, once the effusion has been drained d

Why?

  • Steroids do not clearly reduce symptoms or prevent pleural thickening in patients with TB pleurisy and effusions which have been drained. d

Expiry date: July 2003
Levels of Evidence used in grading these guides

Author   CM   Ball
Reviewer   D   Geddes
CAT Writers   D   Stanley , CM   Ball