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Pleural Involvement in IgG4-Related Disease: Case Report and Review of the Literature

Diagnostics, 2021
Diagnostic work-up of IgG4-related disease (IgG4-RD) pleural involvement is a complex task, as there is a broad spectrum of differential diagnoses to consider.
Federico Mei, Massimiliano Mancini, Giulio Maurizi, Andrea Vecchione, Lina Zuccatosta, Erino Angelo Rendina, Stefano Gasparini   +6 more
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Frailty Prevalence and Association with Clinical Outcomes in Interstitial Lung Disease, Asthma, and Pleural Disease

Geriatrics, 2023
Background: Frailty is a syndrome characterised by increased vulnerability to negative outcomes. Interstitial lung disease (ILD), asthma, and pleural disease are leading causes of morbidity and mortality. We aimed to investigate the prevalence and impact
Alessia Verduri, Ben Carter, Ceara Rice, James Laraman, Eleanor Barton, Enrico Clini, Nick A. Maskell, Jonathan Hewitt   +7 more
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Staging by Thoracoscopy in potentially radically treatable Lung Cancer associated with Minimal Pleural Effusion (STRATIFY): protocol of a prospective, multicentre, observational study

BMJ Open Respiratory Research, 2023
Introduction Recurrence rate following radical therapy for lung cancer remains high, potentially reflecting occult metastatic disease, and better staging tools are required.
Selina Tsim, Kevin G Blyth, Najib M Rahman, Matthew Evison, John Corcoran, Nick Maskell, Elspeth Banks, Jenny Ferguson, Seamus Grundy, Caroline Kelly, Laura Alexander, Shumaila Shad, Mark Neilly, Matthew Tate, Baryab Zahra, Merna Saleh, Gordon Cowell, Nicola Downer, Andrew Stanton   +18 more
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Awake Uniportal VATS for the Evacuation of an Extensive, Superinfected Hemothorax in a Patient with Advanced Mediastinal SMARCA4-Deficient Tumor

The Thoracic & Cardiovascular Surgeon Reports, 2023
Background The so-called nonintubated or awake video-assisted thoracoscopic surgery (NIVATS) is performed on spontaneously breathing patients, which was shown to reduce postoperative complications and shorten hospital stay.
Dominik Lobinger, Alicia Reiche, Andreas Hiebinger, Johannes Bodner   +3 more
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Malignant Pleural Effusions: Updates in Diagnosis and Management

Life, 2022
Malignant pleural effusions remain a significant clinical problem resulting in greater than 125,000 hospitalizations per year and leading to over 5 billion dollars in healthcare utilization costs.
Stephen M. Hughes, Jacob Jonas Carmichael   +1 more
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Establishing a Multidisciplinary Team-Based Pleural Service in the Era of Financial Austerity: The Role of the Thoracic Surgeon

Medicina, 2023
Medical thoracoscopy/pleuroscopy has become, after bronchoscopy, the second most commonly utilized endoscopic procedure in interventional pulmonology. Due to their common origin, medical thoracoscopy/pleuroscopy and video-assisted thoracic surgery (VATS)
Emmanouil I. Kapetanakis, Tatiana Sidiropoulou, Ioannis P. Tomos, Christos F. Kampolis, Thomas Raptakis, Periklis I. Tomos   +5 more
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Recurrent chest pain as a rare presentation of extra‐pelvic endometriosis

Clinical Case Reports, 2021
Periodic chest pain, with bloody pleural effusion should raise the suspicion of pleural endometriosis as a well‐known, but a rare condition in clinical practice.
Mousa Hussein, Mutaz Albakri, Shanima Ismail, Abbas Alabbas, Samir Al Hyassat   +4 more
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Pleural Fluid Resolution Is Associated with Improved Survival in Patients with Malignant Pleural Effusion

Life, 2023
Malignant pleural effusion is associated with a poor prognosis and, while risk stratification models exist, prior studies have not evaluated pleural fluid resolution and its association with survival.
Christina R. MacRosty, Amber Wright, Agathe Ceppe, Sohini Ghosh, A. Cole Burks, Jason A. Akulian   +5 more
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Differentiation Between the Malignant Mesothelioma of Pleura and Pleural Metastasis with Contrast Enhanced CT, Is It Possible?

Siriraj Medical Journal, 2021
Objective: To compare CT findings between malignant pleural mesothelioma (MPM) and metastatic pleural disease (MPD). Materials and Methods: CT chest images of 157 cases of pathologically-proven malignant pleural disease (21 MPM, 136 MPD) were ...
Krittachat Butnian, Nisa Muangman, Kanyarat Totanarungroj, Suwimon Wonglaksanapimon   +3 more
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The effectiveness of small-bore intercostal catheters versus large-bore chest tubes in the management of pleural disease with the systematic review of literature

Lung India, 2020
Objective: The purpose of this study was to compare the effectiveness of small-bore intercostal catheters (SB ICCs; 10–14 Fr) to large-bore intercostal tubes (LB ICTs; >20 Fr) in the management of pleural diseases.
Sumit Mehra, Subash Heraganahally, Dimitar Sajkov, Sharon Morton, Jeffrey Bowden   +4 more
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