For the diagnosis of people with pleural effusion, an initial image-assisted Abrams needle biopsy (IA-ANPB) can match medical thoracoscopy (MT) in diagnostic accuracy in some cases, a small randomized ...

Interventional pulmonologists are highly trained specialists who use advanced, non-surgical therapies to treat your respiratory system. Interventional pulmonologists have experience with a broad range ...

The ambiguity in medical imaging can present major challenges for clinicians who are trying to identify disease. For instance, in a chest X-ray, pleural effusion, an abnormal buildup of fluid in the ...

Study aims to establish whether BioCaptis technology can be used to isolate cell free DNA (cfDNA) from pleural fluid samples in sufficient quantities for downstream DNA analysis Goal is to identify ...

Spontaneous bacterial empyema is a serious infection of the fluid in your pleural cavity that can happen when you have a fluid buildup around your lungs called hepatic hydrothorax. Spontaneous ...

Researchers at the Technical University of Munich (TUM) have developed a medical robotic system to relieve a life-threatening tension pneumothorax in the chest cavity. The researchers are presenting ...