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Malignant Pleural Effusions: Updates in Diagnosis and Management

open access: yesLife, 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   +1 more
doaj   +1 more source

Awake Uniportal VATS for the Evacuation of an Extensive, Superinfected Hemothorax in a Patient with Advanced Mediastinal SMARCA4-Deficient Tumor

open access: yesThe 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   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

Recurrent chest pain as a rare presentation of extra‐pelvic endometriosis

open access: yesClinical 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   +4 more
doaj   +1 more source

Pleural Fluid Resolution Is Associated with Improved Survival in Patients with Malignant Pleural Effusion

open access: yesLife, 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   +5 more
doaj   +1 more source

Case Report: Indwelling Pleural Catheter Based Management of Refractory Hepatic Hydrothorax as a Bridge to Liver Transplantation

open access: yesFrontiers in Medicine, 2021
Introduction: Liver transplantation is the treatment of choice for decompensated liver disease, and by extension for hepatic hydrothorax. Persistent pleural effusions make it challenging for patients to maintain physiological fitness for transplantation.
Mayurun Selvan   +4 more
doaj   +1 more source

Early Contrast Enhancement: a novel Magnetic Resonance Imaging biomarker of pleural malignancy [PDF]

open access: yes, 2018
Introduction: Pleural Malignancy (PM) is often occult on subjective radiological assessment. We sought to define a novel, semi-objective Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) biomarker of PM, targeted to increased tumour microvessel density (MVD) and ...
Alexander, Laura   +10 more
core   +1 more source

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

open access: yesDiagnostics, 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   +6 more
doaj   +1 more source

Evaluating Modelling Approaches for Medical Image Annotations [PDF]

open access: yes, 2010
Information system designers face many challenges with regards to selecting appropriate semantic technologies and deciding on a modeling approach for their system.
Bijan Parsia   +2 more
core   +5 more sources

Mesothelioma and thymic tumors: Treatment challenges in (outside) a network setting [PDF]

open access: yes, 2019
The management of patients with mesothelioma and thymic malignancy requires continuous multidisciplinary expertise at any step of the disease. A dramatic improvement in our knowledge has occurred in the last few years, through the development of ...
Girard, N   +4 more
core   +1 more source

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