Table 2.

A summary of the published cases of chylothorax after coronary artery bypass grafting where octreotide was used in the management.

Author	Procedure	Age/Gender	LIMA/RIMA	Site	Surgery to diagnosis duration (days)	Management and Use of Octreotide/Somatostatin
Perez et al., 1999 [26]	CABG +AVR	68 y/M	UK	L & M	10	Chest tube drainage, TPN, MCTG, Octreotide, resolved after 10 days
Kelly et al., 2000 [27]	CABG	77 y/M	L	L	18	Chest tube drainage, NPO, TPN, Octreotide (50 μg SC TID for 14 days), resolved after 14 days
Gabbieri et al., 2004 [28]	CABG	67 y/F	LIMA	L	10	Chest tube drainage, TPN, NPO, Octreotide (100 μg SC TID), resolved after 28 days
Kilic et al., 2005 [29]	CABG	66 y/F	LIMA	L	12	Chest tube drainage, MCTG, Octreotide (100 μg SC TID), resolved after 10 days
Barbetakis et al., 2006 [30]	CABG	78 y/M	LIMA	L	27	Chest tube drainage, MCTG, Octreotide
Altun et al., 2015 [6]	CABG	60 y/M	LIMA	UK	2	Chest tube drainage, NPO, TPN, Somatostatin infusion @ 3.5 μg/kg/Hr, increased to 7 μg/Kg/Hr, resolved after 13 days
Altun et al., 2015 [6]	CABG	46 y/M	LIMA	UK	3	Chest tube drainage, NPO, TPN, Somatostatin infusion, resolved after 7 days
Owais et al., 2015 [31]	CABG	76 y/F	LIMA	L	15	Chest tube drainage, MCTG, Octreotide (100 μg SC 8 hourly), resolved after 7 days
Waikar et al., 2018 [24]	CABG	52 y/M	LIMA	L	6	Chest tube drainage, NPO, TPN, later on MCTG, Octreotide (100 μg SC 8 hourly), pleurodesis done with 7.5% povidone iodine on POD 11th, resolved after 14 days
Mukherjee et al., 2016 [32]	CABG	56 y/M	LIMA	L	3	Chest tube drainage, Octreotide, Tal pleurodesis after 30 days of conservative management, lung expanded after two days of pleurodesis
Mukherjee et al., 2016 [32]	CABG	50 y/M	LIMA	L	14	Chest tube drainage, Octreotide, Tal pleurodesis after 29 days of conservative management