British Thoracic Society Guideline for pleural disease [PDF]
Conservative management can be considered for the treatment of minimally symptomatic (ie, no significant pain or breathlessness and no physiological compromise) or asymptomatic primary spontaneous pneumothorax in adults regardless of size.
Roberts, Mark E
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Recurrent pneumothorax in pregnancy: What should we do after placing an intercostal drain [PDF]
Recurrent pneumothorax is rare during pregnancy. We describe a Chinese woman, with a history of spontaneous pneumothorax managed with an intercostal drain, who developed a recurrent pneumothorax during her 32nd week of pregnancy. There is no consensus on
Ho, JC +6 more
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Expectancy survival of malignant pleural effusion patients treated with thoracoscopic pleurodesis related to histology [PDF]
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Ambrogi M. C. +5 more
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Effect of Opioids vs NSAIDs and Larger vs Smaller Chest Tube Size on Pain Control and Pleurodesis Efficacy Among Patients With Malignant Pleural Effusion: The TIME1 Randomized Clinical Trial [PDF]
IMPORTANCE For treatment of malignant pleural effusion, nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drugs (NSAIDs) are avoided because they may reduce pleurodesis efficacy.
Ali, N +32 more
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Chest drain size: the debate continues [PDF]
PURPOSE OF REVIEW: Small-bore chest tubes are widely used in the management of common pleural disease. Guidelines suggest that patients with malignant pleural effusions, pneumothorax and pleural infection may be successfully managed with small-bore ...
Hallifax, Rob +2 more
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Primary spontaneous pneumothorax: a cohort study of VATS with talc poudrage [PDF]
Video-assisted thoracoscopic surgery (VATS) is an increasingly common treatment for recurrent or persistent primary spontaneous pneumothorax (PSP). Surgery usually involves diffuse treatment of the pleura and possible targeted therapy to areas of bullous disease.
Giuseppe Cardillo +6 more
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This is a case of a 65-year-old male patient who presented to our institution due to worsening dyspnea and respiratory failure development. The patient was admitted due to dyspnea at rest and chest pain.
Aldo Pezzuto +5 more
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Management of Morel-Lavallee lesion of the knee: Twenty-seven cases in the National Football League [PDF]
BACKGROUND: The Morel-Lavallee lesion is a closed degloving injury most commonly described in the region of the hip joint after blunt trauma. It also occurs in the knee as a result of shearing trauma during football and is a distinct lesion from ...
Bradley, James P. +2 more
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Spontaneous pneumothorax: a review article [PDF]
Neðst á síðunni er hægt að nálgast greinina í heild sinni með því að smella á hlekkinn View/OpenSpontaneous pneumothorax is a relatively common disease primarily affecting young and otherwise healthy individuals.
Bjarni Torfason +3 more
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Données agronomiques de base sur la culture arachidière [PDF]
L'article présente la production, la première transformation et les perspectives économiques de l'arachide dans les PED. Ceux-ci assurent plus de 85% de la production mondiale dans des systèmes paysans dont les principales caractéristiques techniques ...
Schilling, Robert
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