Table 4—
Adverse Effects of commonly used pleurodesis agents
Chemical agent
Total patients
n
Chest pain %
Fever %
Talc
131
7
16
Corynebocterium parvum
169
43
59
Doxycyline
60
40
31
Tetracycline
359
14
10
Bleomycin
199
28
24
Adapted from
115