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Anand Sundaralingam
Anand Sundaralingam is a specialist registrar in Respiratory Medicine and a BRC research fellow at the Oxford pleural unit completing his MD, studying advanced diagnostics in pleural disease and endotyping pleuritis. His other areas of research interest include procedural safety, risk analysis and patient-reported outcome measures following pleural intervention and is currently coordinating an international multi-centre observational study in this area.
Recent publications
Medical thoracoscopy with talc poudrage and indwelling pleural catheter insertion versus medical thoracoscopy with talc poudrage alone for patients with symptomatic malignant pleural effusion (TACTIC): a randomised, controlled phase 3 trial.
Journal article
Dipper A. et al, (2026), The Lancet. Respiratory medicine
Time to next procedure in patients with malignant pleural effusion undergoing aspiration: derivation and initial validation of the RED score
Journal article
Mishra EK. et al, (2026), Thorax
The Frequency, Risk Factors, and Management of Complications From Pleural Procedures
Journal article
Sundaralingam A. et al, (2022), Chest, 161, 1407 - 1425
