ALLMedicine™ Pleural Effusion Center

May 20th, 2022 - Practice Essentials Non–small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) accounts for approximately 85% of all lung cancers. Histologically, NSCLC is divided into adenocarcinoma, squamous cell carcinoma (SCC) (see the image below), and large cell carcinoma. Patient...

May 20th, 2022 - Practice Essentials Non–small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) accounts for approximately 85% of all lung cancers. Histologically, NSCLC is divided into adenocarcinoma, squamous cell carcinoma (SCC) (see the image below), and large cell carcinoma. Patient...

May 20th, 2022 - Practice Essentials Non–small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) accounts for approximately 85% of all lung cancers. Histologically, NSCLC is divided into adenocarcinoma, squamous cell carcinoma (SCC) (see the image below), and large cell carcinoma. Patient...

May 20th, 2022 - History Lung cancer is often insidious, producing no symptoms until the disease is well advanced. In approximately 7-10% of cases, lung cancer is diagnosed in asymptomatic patients when a chest radiograph performed for other reasons reveals the di...

May 18th, 2022 - Patients with chronic granulomatous disease, a primary immunodeficiency, experience granulomatous complications and recurrent life-threatening opportunistic bacterial and fungal infections. In this article, we report on a case of invasive aspergil...

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 ...

May 6th, 2022 - An alternative and emerging treatment for malignant pleural effusions is the placement of a chronic indwelling pleural catheter. Tunneled pleural catheters (TPC) are ideal for treatment of malignant pleural effusion (MPE) associated with a trapped...

May 5th, 2022 - UVC insertion has benefits and potential complications such as infection, intestinal necrosis, thrombosis, ascites, hydrothorax, cardiac tamponade, cardiac arrhythmias, pleural effusion, pericarditis and pericardial effusion. The complications may...

Apr 20th, 2022 - This is a non-interventional clinical study in which (1) cancer tissue that has been resected, biopsied, or drained due to malignant pleural effusion and that is left remaining after (or is not being used during) a pathology investigation and, whe...

Nov 23rd, 2021 - This multicenter prospective survey study is designed to evaluate a newly developed mobile app that will support patients with malignant pleural effusion (MPE) treated with an indwelling pleural catheter (IPC). The aim is to test the mobile app wi...

Nov 16th, 2021 - The diagnosis and treatment of benign and malignant pleural effusions, the mechanisms of pleural diseases

May 11th, 2022 - A 63-YEAR-OLD SOUTHEAST ASIAN WOMAN presented with early satiety, mild swelling of her lower extremities, and several months of progressive shortness of breath that had become severe (provoked by activities of daily living). She had a history of l.

Apr 13th, 2022 - THE CASE A 52-year-old man presented to the emergency department after vomiting a large volume of blood and was admitted to the intensive care unit. His past medical history was remarkable for untreated chronic hepatitis C resulting from injection.

Mar 10th, 2022 - Sotorasib, an approved treatment for lung cancer, has demonstrated clinically meaningful anticancer activity and tolerability in patients with heavily pretreated KRASG12C-mutated advanced pancreatic cancer. The findings were reported at the Americ...

Mar 1st, 2022 - LiPax (TSD-001), a precision-targeted, locally-delivered taxane, was found to induce a recurrence-free survival (RFS) rate of 83% in patients with non–muscle invasive bladder cancer (NMIBC) who had undergone transurethral resection of bladder tumo...

Mar 1st, 2022 - The first decision in newly diagnosed, advanced ovarian cancer is whether to pursue primary debulking or neoadjuvant chemotherapy, determined in part by the presence of pleural effusion, significant ascites, and diffusely metastatic disease. Howev...