Study Status: Completed
Recruit Status: Completed
Study Type: Interventional
Official Title: Thoracoscopic Mesh Repair of Diaphragmatic Defects for Hepatic Hydrothorax: 10 Years' Experience From a Single Large-volume Center
Brief Summary: The management of refractory hepatic hydrothorax is challenging and usually unsuccessful. The study will discuss the perioperative treatment, effectiveness, and morphology of diaphragmatic defects of hepatic hydrothorax in thoracoscopic mesh repair. Risk factors associated with increased three-month mortality in these critically ill patients will be studied.