If you experience pain when coughing, sneezing, or moving, the NHS advises seeking medical attention, as it could be a sign ...

Pleurisy, or pleural effusion, is a condition in which the pleura, two large, thin layers of tissue that separate your lungs from your chest wall becomes inflamed. Not all patients will need ...

Pleural effusion was independently linked to increased all-cause mortality in US veterans with CHF, cancer, and pneumonia.

A pulmonary bleb is a small collection of air between the lung and the outer surface of the lung (visceral pleura) usually found in the upper lobe of the lung. When a bleb ruptures the air escapes ...

Pleurisy, or pleural effusion, is a condition in which the pleura, two large, thin layers of tissue that separate your lungs from your chest wall becomes inflamed. Not all patients will need ...

You may also experience shortness of breath. Sometimes an abnormal amount of fluid will build up in the space between your lungs and your chest wall; when it leaks out it is called a pleural effusion.

The pleura now can be moved from the mediastinum. Once the upper portion of the lung is completely detached from the chest wall, the vessels entering the lung are exposed. On the left side, the ...

2007;26(2):189-190. A 5-month-old boy was transferred to our tertiary care center from a community hospital for workup of a unilateral pleural effusion. He had a history of several days of ...