During the study period, 9,680 subjects had complicated pneumonia. Subjects were excluded if they did not have a pleural drainage procedure (n = 5798), or if thoracentesis was the first pleural fluid ...

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 ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . SEATTLE — Digital pleural drainage devices did not significantly reduce the time of chest tube drainage or ...

Unlike current approaches that require frequent outpatient drainage through an externalized catheter or prolonged hospitalization for invasive pleurodesis procedures, Pleural Dynamics' Automatic ...

Gulab Devi Hospital held a workshop on "Pleural procedures, intercostals chest drains, pleuroscopy/ thoracoscopy" on Friday at the hospital. The keynote speakers were Nadeem Ahmed Rizvi, former HoD ...

MINNEAPOLIS--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Pleural Dynamics, a medical device company that is building solutions for recurrent fluid collections in the body, announced today that the final patient in “The ACES™ ...

This multicenter study is the largest to evaluate the management of children hospitalized with complicated pneumonia. We found considerable variation in initial management and outcomes across ...

Pleural Dynamics, Inc. today announced positive results from a prospective, multicenter study evaluating its Automatic Continuous Effusion Shunt (ACES) device for the management of symptomatic ...