Local musician and public servant Chris Carillo is fighting for his life, but it’s a battle he can’t win on his own, as his ...

With a thoracentesis, a doctor uses imaging guidance to put a needle through your chest wall and into the pleural space. As you go through lung cancer treatment, you’ll have a whole team of ...

Treatment: Depending on the severity, treatment options include managing any underlying cause, taking antibiotics, and ...

Childhood obesity has emerged as one of the most pressing public health crises of our era. With changing lifestyles ...

When an empyema is present, a thoracentesis is often the next step. This involves inserting a long, thin needle through the skin and into the pleural space to obtain a sample of the fluid to determine ...

Treatment: Depending on the severity, treatment options include managing any underlying cause, taking antibiotics, and draining fluid through thoracentesis. Surgery may also be considered, such as ...

The presence of left upper lobe fibroatelectasis was also observed. Diagnostic thoracentesis was performed, with drainage of 60 mL of purulent fluid. Pleural fluid analysis showed an exudate (Light’s ...

After we treated her with symptomatic supportive therapy such as oxygen, anti-infection, drainage by thoracentesis and abdominal puncture, the patient’s symptoms were slightly relieved. Our multiple ...

Using a large U.S. health care claims database, we found that 1.58% of hospitalized medically ill patients-or about one in every 63 such admissions-develop clinical VTE over 90 days. The ...