We were unable to process your request. Please try again later. If you continue to have this issue please contact [email protected]. Back to Healio A 7-year-old black boy presented to the ...

A new study published in the Chest Journal showed that Full MIST2 dosing of intrapleural enzyme therapy (IET) was Linked to Better Outcomes but infrequently administered and showed ...

Nine hospitals participated in the trial. The children were aged 1 month to 14 years, and all had community-acquired pneumonia with fever, cough, parenchymal infiltrate on x-ray, and pleural effusion.

Pleural empyema is the condition of the pleural cavity when initially sterile pleural effusion has become infected. In the majority of cases, it is of parapneumonic origin. Parapneumonic effusions and ...

A 72-year-old man with ischemic cardiomyopathy and heart failure with reduced ejection fraction presented to his physician with cough and shortness of breath associated with a low-grade fever for the ...

For the diagnosis of people with pleural effusion, an initial image-assisted Abrams needle biopsy (IA-ANPB) can match medical thoracoscopy (MT) in diagnostic accuracy in some cases, a small randomized ...

To better manage empyema in the face of rising demand for treatment, the American Association for Thoracic Surgery (AATS) Guidelines Committee called for the formation of the Empyema Management ...

A previously healthy 17-year-old boy presented to his family physician with an increasingly productive cough and fever of 5 days’ duration. Based on a clinical diagnosis of atypical pneumonia, he was ...

Novel non-invasive biomarkers for the precise diagnosis of malignancy in pleural effusion (PE) are needed. The aim of this study was to determine the diagnostic accuracy of calprotectin for predicting ...