This trial was for people who had a pleural effusion caused by cancer. A pleural effusion is a build up of fluid in the space between the sheets of tissue that cover the outside of the lung and the ...

Results from a study presented today at The International Liver Congress 2015 demonstrate that the use of a pocket-sized ultrasound device (PUD) helps to reduce the need for further testing in ...

False negative rates were 30.3% for IA-ANPB and 3.1% for MT in pleural effusion alone, and were 11.9% and 4.7%, respectively, in pleural effusion with pleural thickening or lesions.

Prospective Randomized Trial of Intrapleural Bleomycin Versus Interferon Alfa-2b via Ultrasound-Guided Small-Bore Chest Tube in the Palliative Treatment of Malignant Pleural Effusions . JCO 22, ...

Nurses who are trained in the use of handheld pocket ultrasound devices can dispense diuretic drugs more precisely. ... pleural effusion was found to be present in 42% of the patients, ...

Results Lung ultrasound enables diagnosis of pleural effusion, pneumonia, atelectasis, pulmonary contusion, pulmonary oedema and pneumothorax with high sensitivity and specificity. Sonographic ...

Point-of-care ultrasound also outperforms auscultation in diagnosing asthma, COPD, and pleural effusion, a buildup of fluid between the lung and chest cavity (see table). Condition Auscultation ...

Additionally, the authors found that lung ultrasound features can be used to reflect both the infection duration and disease severity. ... (3.6%) showed a small amount of pleural effusion.

Exo Launches a New Era in Disease Diagnosis with the First FDA-cleared Ultrasound AI for Detection of Pleural Effusion and ... First FDA-cleared Ultrasound AI for Detection of Pleural Effusion ...

Predictors of Viridans Streptococcal Shock Syndrome in Bacteremic Children With Cancer and Stem-Cell Transplant Recipients One hundred sixty patients with rapidly recurrent malignant pleural effusion ...