Patients treated with opiates had a shorter time to pleurodesis failure compared with those treated with NSAIDs, but this did not reach statistical significance (time to pleurodesis failure: opiates, 48.9 days [standard deviation, 46.3 days]; NSAIDs, 73.0 days [standard deviation, 66.5 days]; hazard ratio, 1.1; 95% confidence interval, 0.7–1.8; P = 0.69).
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The impact of perioperative non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs use on pleurodesis following thoracic surgery.
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