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Researchers at the "Luigi Vanvitelli" University of Campania in Naples, Italy, have conducted a study comparing the safety and diagnostic yield of medical pleuroscopy (MP) performed by a pulmonologist team to video-assisted thoracic surgery (VATS) performed by a thoracic surgeon team. The study included 91 patients in the MP group and 116 patients in the VATS group. The researchers found that MP performed under propofol-based analgosedation by a pulmonologist team was a safe and well-tolerated procedure with a diagnostic yield and complication rates similar to VATS. The study also showed that MP had advantages in terms of shorter procedure duration, better pain control, and lower propofol doses. [Extracted from the article]