A 64-year-old male retired firefighter and never-smoker presented to the ventilation team with a 6-month history of ...

Some of the more common include pleurisy, pleural effusion, and mesothelioma. A lung specialist called a pulmonologist is trained to diagnose these and other pleura-related conditions and offer ways ...

If it doesn't resolve, ear tubes may be needed. The eustachian tube is a channel that drains fluid from the middle ear and equalizes pressure in the ear, SOM is also called otitis media with effusion ...

Median survival was significantly less in veterans with vs without pleural effusion in CHF (1.51 vs 3.23 yrs), cancer (1.33 vs 2.05 yrs), and pneumonia (4.27 vs 5.11 yrs). Clinically significant ...

A loculated pericardial effusion was identified, necessitating pericardiocentesis. The clinical course was further complicated by hemopericardium due to coronary laceration. The hemorrhage was managed ...

[54] CXR findings are now standardized as being described and classified as normal, infiltrates present or consolidation/pleural effusion. This is important in facilitating comparison between ...

2007;26(2):189-190. A 5-month-old boy was transferred to our tertiary care center from a community hospital for workup of a unilateral pleural effusion. He had a history of several days of ...

Computed tomography (CT) of the chest confirmed the presence of moderate left loculated pleural effusion associated with pleural thickening and enhancement, as well as bilateral centrilobular ...

Purpose: To assess the inter-observer agreement in reading adults chest radiographs (CXR) and determine the effectiveness ... cavitary lesions, pleural effusion, adenomegaly and diagnosis of PTB and ...

Hypoxia was detected by immunofluorescent visualization of pimonidazole and GLUT-1. For cancer patients, we retrospectively collected 21 ascites and 7 pleural effusion sample blocks of cancer patients ...