Pleural effusion affects more than 1.5 million people in the United States each year and often complicates the management of heart failure, pneumonia, and malignancy. Pleural effusion occurs when ...

A 50-year-old woman presented with a short history of loss of weight and appetite, constipation, right-sided abdominal pain, unsteady gait and headache. Physical examination revealed a soft nontender ...

The pleural space is defined by the visceral pleura, which covers the lung, and the parietal pleura, which covers the chest wall, diaphragm, and mediastinum. It is estimated that pleural effusion ...

IT is the unfortunate lot of some patients dying of metastatic cancer of the breast, lung, cervix and so forth to be plagued by severe dyspnea due to recurrent malignant pleural effusions. Many of ...

Pleural effusion (PLUR-al ef-YOO-shun) is when fluid collects in the tissue between your lungs and the wall of your chest. Pleural effusion can be caused by many different diseases. The most common ...

Pleural effusion, the accumulation of fluid in the pleural space, may reflect a broad spectrum of underlying disorders ranging from infection and malignancy to systemic diseases. Accurate ...

Pleural fluid analysis is the analysis of pleural fluid in the laboratory that occurs after a pleural tap, or thoracentesis. A thoracentesis is a procedure used to drain excess fluid from the space ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . The average health care cost per patient in the indwelling pleural catheter (IPC) group was $40,179 vs. $46,640 ...

A new systematic review and meta-analysis finds that pleuro-amniotic shunting achieves survival in about 65 percent of ...