Comment on

• Aggressive versus symptom-guided drainage of malignant pleural effusion via indwelling pleural catheters (AMPLE-2): an open-label randomised trial.

  Muruganandan S, Azzopardi M, Fitzgerald DB, Shrestha R, Kwan BCH, Lam DCL, De Chaneet CC, Rashid Ali MRS, Yap E, Tobin CL, Garske LA, Nguyen PT, Stanley C, Popowicz ND, Kosky C, Thomas R, Read CA, Budgeon CA, Feller-Kopman D, Maskell NA, Murray K, Lee YCG. Muruganandan S, et al. Lancet Respir Med. 2018 Sep;6(9):671-680. doi: 10.1016/S2213-2600(18)30288-1. Epub 2018 Jul 20. Lancet Respir Med. 2018. PMID: 30037711 Clinical Trial.
• Routine monitoring with pleural manometry during therapeutic large-volume thoracentesis to prevent pleural-pressure-related complications: a multicentre, single-blind randomised controlled trial.

  Lentz RJ, Lerner AD, Pannu JK, Merrick CM, Roller L, Walston C, Valenti S, Goddard T, Chen H, Huggins JT, Rickman OB, Yarmus L, Psallidas I, Rahman NM, Light RW, Maldonado F. Lentz RJ, et al. Lancet Respir Med. 2019 May;7(5):447-455. doi: 10.1016/S2213-2600(18)30421-1. Epub 2019 Feb 13. Lancet Respir Med. 2019. PMID: 30772283 Clinical Trial.
• Effect of Thoracoscopic Talc Poudrage vs Talc Slurry via Chest Tube on Pleurodesis Failure Rate Among Patients With Malignant Pleural Effusions: A Randomized Clinical Trial.

  Bhatnagar R, Piotrowska HEG, Laskawiec-Szkonter M, Kahan BC, Luengo-Fernandez R, Pepperell JCT, Evison MD, Holme J, Al-Aloul M, Psallidas I, Lim WS, Blyth KG, Roberts ME, Cox G, Downer NJ, Herre J, Sivasothy P, Menzies D, Munavvar M, Kyi MM, Ahmed L, West AG, Harrison RN, Prudon B, Hettiarachchi G, Chakrabarti B, Kavidasan A, Sutton BP, Zahan-Evans NJ, Quaddy JL, Edey AJ, Clive AO, Walker SP, Little MHR, Mei XW, Harvey JE, Hooper CE, Davies HE, Slade M, Sivier M, Miller RF, Rahman NM, Maskell NA. Bhatnagar R, et al. JAMA. 2020 Jan 7;323(1):60-69. doi: 10.1001/jama.2019.19997. JAMA. 2020. PMID: 31804680 Free PMC article. Clinical Trial.