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  • Title: Life-threatening complications related to minocycline pleurodesis.
    Author: Li CY, Kuo SW, Lee JM.
    Journal: Ann Thorac Surg; 2011 Sep; 92(3):1122-4. PubMed ID: 21871317.
    Abstract:
    For decades, chemical pleurodesis using minocycline has been widely accepted as an effective, safe, and cheap treatment for persistent air leak after pulmonary resection. We report a case with persistent postoperative air leak that suffered from cardiorespiratory arrest just after a minocycline pleurodesis, which may be related to the aspiration of minocycline solution from a bronchopleural fistula. Therefore, we suggest a bronchoscopic examination be performed before the pleurodesis if a bronchopleural fistula is highly suspected.
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