Pleural effusion is extra fluid between the pleura around your lungs and chest wall. It can cause shortness of breath, chest pain, cough, or fever. In cases of non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC), ...

Clinicians frequently rely on expert opinions, which are sometimes later disproven by randomised controlled trials (RCTs).

A 70-year-old man presented with a recurrent left pleural effusion. He had a history of polymyalgia rheumatica, relapsing polychondritis, scleritis, macrocytic anemia, and intermittent neutropenia, ...

Dr. Leanna J. Travis (Medicine): An 82-year-old woman presented to the emergency department of this hospital because of worsening abdominal distention and pedal edema. Three weeks before the current ...

Empyema is considered to be a sub-classification of parapneumonic pleural effusion. A parapneumonic effusion describes the build-up of activated pleural fluid which is associated with a lung infection ...

Lung Therapeutics has raised a $36 million series C round to take a treatment for a serious complication of pneumonia through phase 2 studies. Texas-based Lung Therapeutics is built on the research of ...

A man in his 60s presented with a six month history of shortness of breath, left sided chest pain, and left thigh swelling. He had chronic pancreatitis related to alcohol use and continued to drink 70 ...