This study aimed to evaluate the sleep quality and impact of thoracentesis on sleep in patients with a large pleural effusion. Patients with large unilateral pleural effusion were evaluated by the Pittsburgh Sleep Quality ...

Background: The use of thoracic ultrasound during thoracentesis reduces complications. The aim of this study was to determine the prevalence of complications for real-time ultrasound-guided thoracentesis performed by ...

Background: Impairment in pulmonary capacity due to pleural effusion compromises daily activity. Removal of fluid improves symptoms, but the impact, especially on exercise capacity, has not been determined. Methods: ...

An 83-year-old male consulted the cardiologist for New York Heart Association functional classification functional class deterioration, anemia and chronic fatigue. He had a history of heart failure with preserved ejection ...

Pleural empyema formation is one of the potential complications of lower respiratory tract infections and it is characterized by bacterial organisms seen on gram stain or the aspiration of pus on thoracentesis. Very rarely ...

The present clinical case studied a 49-year-old patient with polyserositis, who was hospitalized due to a clinical picture of dyspnea of small efforts, intense dry cough, fever and asthenia of several day of evolution, in ...

Until recently, the sonographic evaluation of the thorax as an imaging method was not widely used in veterinary medicine. Ultrasound had been widely underestimated and undervalued due mainly to the physiological barriers ...

The standard approach to staging of lung cancer in patients with pleural effusion (clinical M1a) is thoracentesis followed by pleural biopsies if the cytologic analysis is negative. If pleural biopsy findings are negative, ...