Publications by authors named "Allanah Barker"
Familial spontaneous pneumothorax (FSP) accounts for 10% of primary spontaneous pneumothoraces. Appropriate investigation of FSP enables early diagnosis of serious monogenic diseases and the practice of precision medicine. Here, we show that a pneumothorax genetics multidisciplinary team (MDT) can efficiently diagnose a range of syndromic causes of FSP.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFAim: Surgery for recurrent spontaneous pneumothoraces is one of the most commonly performed procedures in thoracic surgery, but few studies have evaluated the efficacy of the surgical treatment options. We aimed to evaluate the influence of the type of pleurodesis on recurrence whilst adjusting for surgical access by systematic review and meta-regression of randomised and non-randomised trials.
Methods: A systematic literature search undertaken for studies on pneumothorax surgery in MEDLINE, EMBASE, Cochrane Library, Internet trial registers and conference abstracts identified 29 studies (4 randomised and 25 non-randomised) eligible for inclusion.
Background: Evidence supporting similar recurrence rates between video-assisted and open surgery for the treatment of recurrent pneumothorax is questionable, because the number of randomised trials is sparse and they are underpowered to detect any meaningful difference. Our aim was to do a systematic review of randomised and non-randomised studies to compare recurrence rates between the two forms of surgical access.
Methods: We did a systematic literature search for studies on pneumothorax surgery in Medline, Embase, Cochrane Library, trial registers on the internet, and conference abstracts, and identified 29 studies (four randomised and 25 non-randomised) eligible for inclusion.