- Conditions
- Pleural Infection
- Interventions
- Saline Irrigation
- Procedure
- Lead sponsor
- Mayo Clinic
- Other
- Eligibility
- 18 Years and older
- Enrollment
- 60 participants
- Healthy volunteers
- Accepts healthy volunteers
- Timeline
- 2025 – 2027
- U.S. locations
- 1
- States / cities
- Rochester, Minnesota
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- Conditions
- Hemothorax, Hemopneumothorax; Traumatic, Empyema, Chest Tube Size
- Interventions
- Chest tube placement
- Device
- Lead sponsor
- Wake Forest University Health Sciences
- Other
- Eligibility
- 18 Years and older
- Enrollment
- 193 participants
- Healthy volunteers
- Healthy volunteers not accepted
- Timeline
- 2017 – 2021
- U.S. locations
- 1
- States / cities
- Charlotte, North Carolina
- Conditions
- Complicated Parapneumonic Effusion, Empyema, Pleural
- Interventions
- Intrapleural Saline with possible escalation to intraplerual alteplase and dornase.
- Drug
- Lead sponsor
- Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center
- Other
- Eligibility
- 18 Years and older
- Enrollment
- 30 participants
- Healthy volunteers
- Healthy volunteers not accepted
- Timeline
- 2026 – 2027
- U.S. locations
- 1
- States / cities
- Hanover, New Hampshire
- Conditions
- Lung Cancer, Lung Infection, Breast Cancer, Malignant Pleural Effusion, Empyema
- Interventions
- Not listed
- Lead sponsor
- UNC Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center
- Other
- Eligibility
- 18 Years and older
- Enrollment
- 9,999 participants
- Healthy volunteers
- Healthy volunteers not accepted
- Timeline
- 2018 – 2050
- U.S. locations
- 1
- States / cities
- Chapel Hill, North Carolina
- Conditions
- Pleural Infection Bacterial, Pleural Infections, Pleural Infections and Inflammations, Empyema, Pleural, Empyema, Complicated Pleural Effusion/ Empyema, Pleural Effusion Associated With Pulmonary Infection, Pleural Effusion
- Interventions
- Fibrinolytic once daily, Fibrinolytic twice daily, DNA degradation once daily, DNA degradation twice daily
- Drug
- Lead sponsor
- University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
- Other
- Eligibility
- 18 Years and older
- Enrollment
- 270 participants
- Healthy volunteers
- Healthy volunteers not accepted
- Timeline
- 2025 – 2028
- U.S. locations
- 6
- States / cities
- New Haven, Connecticut • Chicago, Illinois • Detroit, Michigan + 2 more
- Conditions
- Empyema
- Interventions
- tPA alone, tPA plus dornase
- Biological
- Lead sponsor
- Children's Mercy Hospital Kansas City
- Other
- Eligibility
- Up to 17 Years
- Healthy volunteers
- Healthy volunteers not accepted
- Timeline
- 2016
- U.S. locations
- 1
- States / cities
- Kansas City, Missouri
- Conditions
- Surgical Complication, COVID-19, Pneumothorax, Empyema, Pleural, Abscess, Hemothorax, Thoracic
- Interventions
- Lung parenchyma resection, Empyemectomy
- Procedure
- Lead sponsor
- University of Milano Bicocca
- Other
- Eligibility
- 18 Years and older
- Enrollment
- 83 participants
- Healthy volunteers
- Healthy volunteers not accepted
- Timeline
- 2020 – 2022
- U.S. locations
- 1
- States / cities
- New York, New York
- Conditions
- Empyema, Pleural Effusion
- Interventions
- Alteplase
- Drug
- Lead sponsor
- O'Brien, Jeana D., MD, FACP, FCCP
- Individual
- Eligibility
- 18 Years and older
- Enrollment
- 75 participants
- Healthy volunteers
- Healthy volunteers not accepted
- Timeline
- Started 2004
- U.S. locations
- 1
- States / cities
- Temple, Texas
- Conditions
- Infection, Cancer, Neoplasm, Empyema, Granuloma
- Interventions
- Cone-beam computed tomography (CT), Conventional Computed Tomography (CT)
- Device
- Lead sponsor
- National Institutes of Health Clinical Center (CC)
- NIH
- Eligibility
- 18 Years to 100 Years
- Enrollment
- 87 participants
- Healthy volunteers
- Healthy volunteers not accepted
- Timeline
- 2011 – 2015
- U.S. locations
- 1
- States / cities
- Bethesda, Maryland
- Conditions
- Pleural Infection, Empyema, Pleural Diseases, Parapneumonic Effusion
- Interventions
- tissue plasminogen activator (tPA) and human recombinant deoxyribonuclease (DNase), Medical Thoracoscopy
- Drug · Procedure
- Lead sponsor
- Tulane University
- Other
- Eligibility
- 18 Years and older
- Enrollment
- 32 participants
- Healthy volunteers
- Healthy volunteers not accepted
- Timeline
- 2017 – 2019
- U.S. locations
- 1
- States / cities
- New Orleans, Louisiana
- Conditions
- Pleural Effusion Associated With Pulmonary Infection, Bacterial Pleural Effusion Other Than Tuberculosis
- Interventions
- Alteplase, Placebo
- Drug
- Lead sponsor
- Midwest Pulmonary and Critical Care
- Other
- Eligibility
- 18 Years and older
- Enrollment
- 100 participants
- Healthy volunteers
- Healthy volunteers not accepted
- Timeline
- 2004 – 2009
- U.S. locations
- 1
- States / cities
- Omaha, Nebraska
- Conditions
- Empyema
- Interventions
- Chest tube with tPA infusion for 3 days, VATS decortication
- Procedure
- Lead sponsor
- Children's Mercy Hospital Kansas City
- Other
- Eligibility
- Up to 18 Years
- Enrollment
- 36 participants
- Healthy volunteers
- Healthy volunteers not accepted
- Timeline
- 2006 – 2007
- U.S. locations
- 1
- States / cities
- Kansas City, Missouri
- Conditions
- Parapneumonic Effusion, Empyema, Pleural, Coagulopathy
- Interventions
- VATS Decortication, Fibrinolytic Therapy
- Procedure · Drug
- Lead sponsor
- Denver Health and Hospital Authority
- Other
- Eligibility
- 18 Years and older
- Enrollment
- 10 participants
- Healthy volunteers
- Healthy volunteers not accepted
- Timeline
- 2018 – 2020
- U.S. locations
- 1
- States / cities
- Denver, Colorado
- Conditions
- Empyema, Pleural, Parapneumonic Effusion
- Interventions
- Intrapleural Medications, Surgery, Pleural Sampling, Pleural fluid drainage, Protocol Image #1, Surgical Consultation, Protocol Image #2: Chest X-ray PA/Lateral, Quality of Life
- Drug · Procedure · Radiation + 2 more
- Lead sponsor
- Swedish Medical Center
- Other
- Eligibility
- 18 Years and older
- Enrollment
- 26 participants
- Healthy volunteers
- Accepts healthy volunteers
- Timeline
- 2019 – 2022
- U.S. locations
- 1
- States / cities
- Seattle, Washington
- Conditions
- Empyema, Pleural, Pleural Infection
- Interventions
- Saline Flush
- Other
- Lead sponsor
- Vanderbilt University Medical Center
- Other
- Eligibility
- 18 Years and older
- Enrollment
- 96 participants
- Healthy volunteers
- Healthy volunteers not accepted
- Timeline
- 2024 – 2026
- U.S. locations
- 5
- States / cities
- Sterling Heights, Michigan • Omaha, Nebraska • New York, New York + 2 more