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Table 7 Safety outcome

From: Diagnostic yield and risk/benefit analysis of trans-bronchial lung cryobiopsy in diffuse parenchymal lung diseases: a large cohort of 699 patients

Side effects

No. (%)

Pneumothorax

134 (19.2%)

- 94 drained

Bleeding

87 (12.4%)

- 29 mild bleeding

- 53 moderate bleeding

- 5 severe bleeding

Other side effects

9 (1.3%)

- 4 transient respiratory failure

- 1 empyema

- 1 seizures

- 1 atrial fibrillation

- 1 pneumomediastinum

- 1 haemoptysis

Death

3 (0.4%)

- 2 for AE-IPF

- 1 thrombotic neoplastic microangiopathy/carcinomatous lymphangitis

  1. Abbreviations: AE-IPF Acute exacerbation of idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis