Endobronchial Watanabe Spigot for Acute Empyema With Bronchopleural Fistula: A Case Series
Kento Yokota, Takayuki Niitsu, Satoshi Tanaka, Daiki Nagira, Saki Nishibeppu, Naoya Takada, Satoshi Tobita, Moto Yaga, Kiyonobu Ueno, Yasunobu Funakoshi · 2025
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Description
Kento Yokota and co-authors report three cases where a small plug sealed a lung leak tied to chest infection, in work from two thousand twenty-five. Each patient was frail, with pus in the chest space and air leaking through a hole in an airway. Drainage and drugs alone had not sealed the leak.
The plug was placed early, at the first scope chance, before a more drastic chest opening. In all three cases the air leak stopped fully. Chest tubes came out in six to twenty-six days, and the big operation was avoided. No plug moved, and no new infection was tied to the device.
Catalog record
| CREATOR | Kento Yokota, Takayuki Niitsu, Satoshi Tanaka, Daiki Nagira, Saki Nishibeppu, Naoya Takada, Satoshi Tobita, Moto Yaga, Kiyonobu Ueno, Yasunobu Funakoshi |
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| YEAR | 2025 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 19 KB |
| VERSION | 1.0 |
| LICENSE | CC BY 4.0 |
| RIGHTS | CC BY |
| SOURCE | Europe PMC |