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Empyema

Journal of Education and Teaching in Emergency Medicine, 2018
History of present illness: A 51-year-old male with congestive heart failure, previous myocardial infarctions, and a questionable history of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease presented to the emergency department with a chief complaint of shortness ...
Jonathan Patane
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An uncommon complication of a common clinical scenario: exploring reexpansion pulmonary edema with a case report and literature review [PDF]

Journal of Community Hospital Internal Medicine Perspectives, 2016
Reexpansion pulmonary edema (RPE) is a rare complication that can occur after rapid reinflation of the lung following thoracentesis of a pleural effusion or chest tube drainage of pneumothorax.
Jared W. Meeker, Amy L. Jaeger, William P. Tillis   +2 more
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Colon Leiomyosarcoma Diagnosed by Pleural Biopsy: A Case Study

Pakistan Journal of Medical Research, 2021
Leiomyosarcomas (LMS) are rare tumors of the gastrointestinal (GI) tract with aggressive and poor prognosis. LMS metastasizes primarily to the liver but rarely to the lungs, and has hematogenous spreading from smooth muscle cells of the intestinal wall.
Celalettin Korkmaz, Adil Zamani, Pinar Dogan, Haci Hasan Esen   +3 more
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Re-expansion Pulmonary Edema

Journal of Education and Teaching in Emergency Medicine, 2017
History of present illness: A 95-year-old male with history of atrial fibrillation presented to the emergency department for shortness of breath for one week. A chest X-ray showed a large right-sided pleural effusion.
Kathryn Bennett, Benjamin Feldman
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Routine monitoring with pleural manometry during therapeutic large-volume thoracentesis to prevent pleural-pressure-related complications: a multicentre, single-blind randomised controlled trial.

The Lancet Respiratory Medicine, 2019
BACKGROUND In patients with non-expandable lung, removal of pleural fluid can result in excessively negative pleural pressure, which is associated with chest discomfort, pneumothorax, and re-expansion pulmonary oedema. Pleural manometry is widely used to
R. Lentz, A. Lerner, J. Pannu, C. Merrick, L. Roller, C. Walston, S. Valenti, T. Goddard, Heidi Chen, J. Huggins, O. Rickman, L. Yarmus, I. Psallidas, N. Rahman, R. Light, F. Maldonado   +15 more
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Incidence and risk factors of pneumothorax following pre-procedural ultrasound-guided thoracentesis

Journal of Thoracic Disease, 2020
Background Data regarding the incidence and risk factors of pneumothorax following pre-procedural ultrasound (US)-guided thoracentesis is scarce. We aimed to evaluate the incidence and risk factors of pneumothorax following pre-procedural US-guided ...
L. Shechtman, Maayan Shrem, Y. Kleinbaum, G. Bornstein, Lee Gilad, C. Grossman   +5 more
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Thoracentesis techniques: A literature review

Medicine
Thoracentesis is performed by 4 methods: gravity, manual aspiration, vacuum-bottle suction, and wall suction. This literature review investigates the safety of these techniques and determines if there is significant difference in complication rates.
Asna Mohammed, Uri Hochfeld, S. Hong, D. Hosseini, Kevin Kim, K. Omidvari   +5 more
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Limited Clinical Utility of Chest Radiography in Asymptomatic Patients after Interventional Radiology-Performed Ultrasound-Guided Thoracentesis: Analysis of 3,022 Consecutive Patients

Journal of Clinical Interventional Radiology ISVIR, 2021
Purpose The aim of this study was to report the utility of chest radiography following interventional radiology-performed ultrasound-guided thoracentesis.
Jacob J. Bundy, Anthony N. Hage, Ruple Jairath, Albert Jiao, Vibhor Wadhwa, Narendra B. Gutta, Ravi N. Srinivasa, Joseph J. Gemmete, Eric J. Monroe, Jeffrey Forris Beecham Chick   +9 more
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Pleural Effusion Secondary to Obstructive Uropathy: A Case of Urinothorax

European Journal of Case Reports in Internal Medicine, 2020
Urinothorax is a rare type of pleural effusion and usually the result of genitourinary tract disease. An accurate and early diagnosis is crucial as resolution of the underlying pathology is the mainstay of treatment.
Andreia Freitas, Telmo Coelho, Sara Beça, Tiago Gregório   +3 more
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Thoracentesis to alleviate pleural effusion in acute heart failure: study protocol for the multicentre, open-label, randomised controlled TAP-IT trial

BMJ Open
Introduction Pleural effusion is present in half of the patients hospitalised with acute heart failure. The condition is treated with diuretics and/or therapeutic thoracentesis for larger effusions.
Signe Glargaard, J. H. Thomsen, B. Løgstrup, M. Schou, K. Iversen, C. Tuxen, O. Nielsen, Christian Axel Bang, Matias Greve Lindholm, E. Seven, Anders Barasa, N. Stride, Søren Vraa, M. Tofterup, Rasmus Vedby Rasmussen, D. Høfsten, K. Rossing, Lars Køber, F. Gustafsson, J. J. Thune   +19 more
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