Medically reviewed by Soma Mandal, MD Orthopnea is the sensation of breathlessness when lying down that goes away when ...

This is accomplished by implanting a shunt to drain CSF from either the intracranial ventricular system or the lumbar subarachnoid space to a distal site, such as the peritoneal or pleural cavity ...

The surgical team of Indore’s Super Speciality Hospital successfully operated upon a rare and challenging case of a Chest wall tumour in a 22-year-old girl. The patient was diagnosed with a large ...

Pleural diseases are health issues that affect the pleura, the thin membranes composing the lining of the lungs and chest cavity. Asbestos exposure is often a cause of pleural diseases — like pleural ...

or severe bronchitis various procedures to drain the pleural cavity of fluid surgery to treat lung problems such as cancer or an abscess COPD is incurable, but treatment can help manage symptoms ...

Each pleura is a single membrane that folds back on itself to form two layers. The space between the membranes (called the pleural cavity or intrapleural space) is filled with a thin, lubricating ...

This action decreases pressure and increases the space in the thoracic cavity, allowing your lungs to expand as you inhale. When the diaphragm relaxes, your chest cavity becomes smaller and your lungs ...

Jean C. Pfau, Ph.D. from the Center for Asbestos-Related Disease and Kinta Serve from Idaho State University, provide their perspective on asbestos, the pleural cavity, and autoimmune disease Asbestos ...

Each cavity is driven by a high-power klystron, which is a tube containing electron beams. The electron beams are intensity-modulated to a frequency of 400 MHz, or 400 million oscillations per second.

This provides another new way to diagnose biliary pleural fistulas. However, the location of the fistula in the abdominal cavity is difficult to detect due to the weak penetration of NIR region I/II ...