title: Octreotide therapy in two children with intractable postoperative chylothorax.
abstract: Postoperative chylothorax is sometimes difficult to be managed either by conventional therapies or by surgery. Herein, we report the experience of octreotide therapy for intractable postoperative chylothorax in two children (one was severe tetralogy of Fallot received Blalock-Taussing shunt, and the other was a single ventricle received bi-directional Glenn shunt) and review the literature on octreotide efficacy.
authors.forename: Wen-Pin
authors.initials: WP
authors.lastname: Hung
authors.forename: Jieh-Neng
authors.initials: JN
authors.lastname: Wang
authors.forename: Hok-Keong
authors.initials: HK
authors.lastname: Chang
authors.forename: Jing-Ming
authors.initials: JM
authors.lastname: Wu
mesh_terms: D002916:Chylothorax / Q000188:drug therapy*; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007223:Infant; D007231:Infant, Newborn; D015282:Octreotide / Q000627:therapeutic use*; D011183:Postoperative Complications / Q000188:drug therapy*; D013004:Somatostatin / Q000031:analogs & derivatives / Q000627:therapeutic use
chemical_list: D013004:Somatostatin; D015282:Octreotide