Use of routine thoracentesis in addition to medical therapy yielded no significant benefits for adults with heart failure and pleural effusions, according to a new study. For patients with acute heart ...

THIS report concerns injury to the diaphragmatic vessels by the needle used for thoracentesis. Only three cases have been reported, to our knowledge: one by Elkin, 1 another, which will be described ...

A 72-year-old woman with a history of hypertension presented with progressive swelling of the right posterior chest wall that had been present for two days following a diagnostic thoracentesis. She ...

Preoperative inspiratory muscle training prevented pneumonia in a randomized trial of 279 patients undergoing coronary artery bypass graft (CABG) surgery who were at high risk for pulmonary ...