Seeing through the MIST: A Pathway Toward Optimal Intervention for Pleural Infection

David Feller-Kopman^{1

2}

Affiliations

¹ Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center Lebanon, New Hampshire.
² Geisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth Hanover, New Hampshire.

Editorial

David Feller-Kopman. Am J Respir Crit Care Med. 2023.

. 2023 Dec 15;208(12):1261-1263.

doi: 10.1164/rccm.202310-1822ED.

David Feller-Kopman^{1

2}

¹ Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center Lebanon, New Hampshire.
² Geisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth Hanover, New Hampshire.

No abstract available

Comment on

Early Video-assisted Thoracoscopic Surgery or Intrapleural Enzyme Therapy in Pleural Infection: A Feasibility Randomized Controlled Trial. The Third Multicenter Intrapleural Sepsis Trial-MIST-3.
Bedawi EO, Stavroulias D, Hedley E, Blyth KG, Kirk A, De Fonseka D, Edwards JG, Internullo E, Corcoran JP, Marchbank A, Panchal R, Caruana E, Kadwani O, Okiror L, Saba T, Purohit M, Mercer RM, Taberham R, Kanellakis N, Condliffe AM, Lewis LG, Addala DN, Asciak R, Banka R, George V, Hassan M, McCracken D, Sundaralingam A, Wrightson JM, Dobson M, West A, Barnes G, Harvey J, Slade M, Chester-Jones M, Dutton S, Miller RF, Maskell NA, Belcher E, Rahman NM. Bedawi EO, et al. Am J Respir Crit Care Med. 2023 Dec 15;208(12):1305-1315. doi: 10.1164/rccm.202305-0854OC. Am J Respir Crit Care Med. 2023. PMID: 37820359 Free PMC article. Clinical Trial.

1. Ramirez JA, Wiemken TL, Peyrani P, Arnold FW, Kelley R, Mattingly WA, et al. University of Louisville Pneumonia Study Group Adults hospitalized with pneumonia in the United States: incidence, epidemiology, and mortality. Clin Infect Dis . 2017;65:1806–1812. - PubMed
1. Light RW. Pleural diseases. Philadelphia, PA: Lippincott Williams & Wilkins; 2013.
1. Mummadi SR, Stoller JK, Lopez R, Kailasam K, Gillespie CT, Hahn PY. Epidemiology of adult pleural disease in the United States. Chest . 2021;160:1534–1551. - PubMed
1. Bedawi EO, Ricciardi S, Hassan M, Gooseman MR, Asciak R, Castro-Añón O, et al. ERS/ESTS statement on the management of pleural infection in adults. Eur Respir J . 2023;61:2201062. - PubMed
1. Dean NC, Griffith PP, Sorensen JS, McCauley L, Jones BE, Lee YC. Pleural effusions at first ED encounter predict worse clinical outcomes in patients with pneumonia. Chest . 2016;149:1509–1515. - PMC - PubMed