Finding it hard to breathe when you lay down is medically called orthopnea. Find a list of potential causes to help narrow ...

Researchers from Rice University and Baylor College of Medicine have developed a new treatment that eliminates advanced-stage ...

a condition when air accumulates in the pleural cavity which can collapse the lung and cause problems with heartbeat and breathing, in some cases becoming fatal. The hospital says it has been ...

Chest Drainage System Market. The global chest drainage system market is poised for continued growth, with sales projected to ...

During surgery, long segments of the first four ribs and part of the sternum were removed with an oncologically safe margin, ...

The pleural cavity was reconstructed with a prolene mesh, and the chest wall was reconstructed with implants. Extremely long implants were needed for rib reconstruction, and they were not ...

All children received a preoperative chest radiograph (CXR), pleural ultrasound scan (USS ... Pulmonary abscess: well-defined area of intrapulmonary fluid density or cavity with air fluid level, with ...

The intrapleural space contains roughly 4 to 5 cubic centimeters (ccs) of pleural fluid. The pleura fluid has a slightly sticky quality that helps draw the lungs outward during inhalation rather than ...

Occult pneumothorax, a condition where air leaks into the pleural space without visible ... approaches that minimize invasive procedures like chest tube insertion. This shift is driven by the ...

2017; Yap et al., 2017). MPM develops in the pleural cavity, is highly resistant to several therapeutics, and is associated with a poor patient prognosis (Creaney and Robinson, 2017; Liu et al., 2017; ...

Britain is facing an avalanche of asbestos-related deaths. For decades, the official policy has been to leave asbestos where ...