US Navy veteran beats cancer with experimental treatment and reliance on faith
John Ryan, a U.S. Navy veteran, beat cancer through nearly a decade of experimental immunotherapy treatment. The vet shared ...
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Pleura Anatomy and Function and Conditions That Affect It
A pleural effusion can be very small (detectable only by a chest X-ray or CT scan) or be large and contain several pints of fluid. A pleural effusion requires drainage of the intrapleural space ...
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Lupus Vasculitis, A Rare Diagnosis and a Therapeutic Challenge: A Case Report
More than 50% of patients with systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) develop lupus nephritis (LN) during the disease, which may ...
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Role of routine computed tomography in paediatric pleural empyema
6 Subjects were recruited from children aged <16 years referred to our institution, a tertiary paediatric respiratory centre, for further management of complicated parapneumonic effusion over a 3-year ...
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AI in GUTB: The concept of a holistic multi-modal approach
Prof, MD, DMRD ( Former Dean, Professor & Head- Radiology, LTMMC & LTMGH ) highlights how the goal of TB elimination by 2050, ...
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Iatrogenic injury to the intercostal artery: aetiology, diagnosis and therapeutic intervention
Two hours later, another chest film demonstrated that the pleural effusion had enlarged and the patient's haematocrit had dropped from 31% to 21%. This prompted a chest CT that showed hyperdense ...
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Rapid Pleurodesis for Symptomatic Pleural Effusion Treatment
The following is a summary of “Rapid Pleurodesis in Patients With Chronic Noninfectious Pleural Effusion,” published in the ...
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Endoscopic treatment as first-line therapy for pancreatic ascites and pleural effusion
Background: Ascites and pleural effusion are well recognized complications of pancreatic diseases. Drug therapy of these is limited by high cost, prolonged hospitalization and failure rates ...