Fetal pleural effusion is the abnormal build-up of fluid in the chest of an unborn baby, which can cause pressure on the lungs and heart. A pleuro-amniotic shunt is a tube inserted between the chest ...

thoracentesis with a catheter rather than a sharp needle. Various specially designed thoracentesis trays are available for introducing small catheters into the pleural space. Alternatively, newer ...

The excessive buildup of fluid in the space between your lungs and chest cavity, known as water fluid is also called Pleural effusion. The condition in which both the lungs get affected is called ...

IT is the unfortunate lot of some patients dying of metastatic cancer of the breast, lung, cervix and so forth to be plagued by severe dyspnea due to recurrent malignant pleural effusions. Many of ...