ALLMedicine™ Chylothorax Center

Jun 24th, 2022 - Disorders of lymphatic function are associated with multiple presentations, the most common of which is lymphedema, a chronic swelling of the extremities, due to impaired lymphatic drainage. It can cause disability and a predisposition to infectio...

Jun 24th, 2022 - Chylothorax, the accumulation of chyle in the pleural space, is usually caused by the disruption of the thoracic duct or its tributaries. Etiologies are broadly divided into traumatic, including post-surgical, and non-traumatic, most commonly in t...

Jun 12th, 2022 - There is no agreement whether prophylactic thoracic duct ligation (TDL), with or without resection, during esophagectomy for patients with cancer is beneficial. The effects of these procedures on postoperative complications and overall survival re...

Jun 9th, 2022 - Hepatitis A virus infections are mostly asymptomatic or mildly symptomatic, and generally this disease has a benign course and resolves spontaneously. However, intrahepatic and rarer extrahepatic manifestations can complicate typical cases of acut...

Jun 9th, 2022 - Chyloperitoneum and chylothorax (ChP/ChT) are rare complications after bariatric surgery. This systematic review aims to evaluate the incidence, cause, treatment, and outcome of ChP and ChT after bariatric surgery. This review investigates publish...

Jun 24th, 2022 - Disorders of lymphatic function are associated with multiple presentations, the most common of which is lymphedema, a chronic swelling of the extremities, due to impaired lymphatic drainage. It can cause disability and a predisposition to infectio...

Jan 19th, 2022 - A fetal hydrops, also called a fetal anasarca, is the buildup of fluid in the serosa and / or fetal subcutaneous tissue. The diagnosis is made by ultrasound, possibly from the first trimester of pregnancy. The etiologies of hydrops can be immune o...

Nov 8th, 2021 - Summary Surgical treatment of lung cancer consists of two elements: anatomical lung resection (segmentectomy, lobectomy or pneumonectomy) followed by mediastinal lymph node sampling (MLNS) or mediastinal lymph node dissection (MLND). Since over la...

Sep 8th, 2021 - Breast milk is the reference normative standard for infant feeding. When an infant is diagnosed with chylothorax, provision of breast milk must be temporarily discontinued due to the presence of long chain triglycerides (LCT) that contribute to pe...

Apr 28th, 2021 - To evacuate abnormal fluid and air, chest tubes are placed in the pleural space, either surgically or percutaneously. Therapeutic drainage of pleural conditions such as pneumothorax, hemothorax, empyema, chylothorax, and malignant effusions, as we...

Jan 15th, 2021 - Neoadjuvant chemotherapy regimens were not found to increase the risk for perioperative complications in patients who have potentially resectable advanced thoracic esophageal cancer, according to data from the phase 3 JCOG 1109 trial that were vir...

Jan 17th, 2020 - Alfred Soffer Research Award Winners Johnathan Chung: EVALUATING CLINICAL UTILITY OF A UIP GENOMIC CLASSIFIER IN SUBJECTS WITH AND WITHOUT A HRCT PATTERN OF UIP Girish Nair, MD: QUANTITATIVE LUNG FUNCTION IMAGING USING NOVEL INTEGRATED JACOBIAN VE.

Dec 1st, 2017 - Kaposi sarcoma is an angioproliferative tumor that is associated with human herpes virus-B (HIV-B). Mucocutaneous disease is the most common site for manifestation of AIDS-related Kaposi sarcoma, commonly affecting the lower extremeties, oral muco.

Jun 29th, 2017 - Kaposi sarcoma is an angioproliferative tumor that is associated with human herpes virus-8 (HHV-8). Mucocutaneous disease is the most common site for manifestation of AIDS-related Kaposi sarcoma, commonly affecting the lower extremities, oral muco.

Jan 11th, 2017 - To the Editor: RASopathies, a class of developmental disorders, are caused by mutations in genes that encode protein components of the RAS/mitogen-activated protein kinase (MAPK) pathway. Each syndrome exhibits its phenotypic features; however, be.