ALLMedicine™ Pleural Effusion Center

Mar 29th, 2023 - Plasma exchange successfully improved symptoms of immunoglobulin A vasculitis in an adult female patient who developed the condition after infection with COVID-19, according to a case report published in Cureus. Immunoglobulin A (IgA) vasculitis c.

Mar 28th, 2023 - Trichomonas tenax is a single-cell flagellated anaerobic organism, commensal in the human oral cavity. Although a previous study indicated that T. tenax could cause cell damage and phagocytose host epithelial cells, its pathological effects on gum...

Mar 25th, 2023 - Congenital lymphatic anomalies (LAs) arise due to defects in lymphatic development and often present in utero as pleural effusion, chylothorax, nuchal and soft tissue edema, ascites, or hydrops. Many LAs are caused by single nucleotide variants wh...

Mar 25th, 2023 - The relationship between intraoperative anesthetic management and postoperative pulmonary complications (PPCs) after liver transplantation is not fully understood. We aimed to determine the intraoperative contributors to PPC. The retrospectively c...

Mar 24th, 2023 - To find simple imaging-based features on cardiac magnetic resonance (CMR) that are associated with major adverse cardiovascular events (MACE) in takotsubo syndrome (TTS). Patients with TTS referred for CMR between 2007 and 2021 were retrospectivel...

Apr 27th, 2021 - The American College of Physicians (ACP) developed this guideline to provide clinical recommendations on the appropriate use of point-of-care ultrasonography (POCUS) in patients with acute dyspnea in emergency department (ED) or inpatient settings...

May 7th, 2020 - Pneumonia is one of the most common acute infections and the single greatest infectious cause of death in children worldwide. In uncomplicated, community-acquired pneumonia in immunocompetent patients, the diagnosis is clinical and imaging has no ...

Mar 21st, 2023 - This study intends to investigate the efficacy and safety of medical thoracoscopic cryotherapy combined with standard first-line treatment of advanced non-small cell lung cancer with malignant pleural effusion through a randomized controlled clini...

Mar 10th, 2023 - Background Less Invasive Surfactant Administration (LISA) is a way of applying surfactant in the trachea by use of a catheter during spontaneous breathing and after applying nasal continuous positive airway pressure (nCPAP). However, use of pre-pr...

Mar 8th, 2023 - The aetiologies of pleural effusion range from cardio-respiratory diseases, malignancy, infection to systemic inflammatory conditions. However, data on the exact incidence of individual causes of pleural effusion is inadequate. Conflicting results...

Mar 8th, 2023 - Advancements in imaging capacities and the development of a precise puncture-guiding transducer have made transthoracic ultrasonography a useful diagnostic tool for evaluating peripheral subpleural lung tumours. Different human tissues have varyin...

Mar 8th, 2023 - Patients ≥18 years old who have large volume of pleural effusion, required evacuation, and received systemic therapy with a checkpoint inhibitor (monotherapy or combination with another checkpoint inhibitor) for metastatic cancers (renal cell carc...

Mar 29th, 2023 - Plasma exchange successfully improved symptoms of immunoglobulin A vasculitis in an adult female patient who developed the condition after infection with COVID-19, according to a case report published in Cureus. Immunoglobulin A (IgA) vasculitis c.

Mar 20th, 2023 - The history and findings in this case are suggestive of non–small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) large cell carcinoma. Lung cancer is the most common cancer worldwide and has the highest mortality rate of all cancers.

Mar 20th, 2023 - Using conventional ultrafiltration during cardiac surgery did not appear to reduce the incidence of postoperative pulmonary complications, according to a retrospective analysis. After adjusting for confounding variables, the incidence of the compo...

Mar 15th, 2023 - Thoracic Oncology Network Interventional Procedures Section The management of recurrent pleural effusions is challenging. Indwelling tunneled pleural catheters (IPCs) have been shown to reduce the need for additional pleural procedures, admissions.

Feb 28th, 2023 - The history and findings in this case are suggestive of non–small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) large cell carcinoma. Lung cancer is the most common cancer worldwide and has the highest mortality rate of all cancers.