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A partly loculated right pleural effusion was identified. Empirical treatment with vancomycin and piperacillin–tazobactam was administered intravenously.

IT is the unfortunate lot of some patients dying of metastatic cancer of the breast, lung, cervix and so forth to be plagued by severe dyspnea due to recurrent malignant pleural effusions. Many of ...

A 5-month-old boy was transferred to our tertiary care center from a community hospital for workup of a unilateral pleural effusion.

Loculated pleural effusion (LPE) is a condition in which fluid is trapped within the pleural cavity due to fibrinous adhesions, leading to pain, shortness of breath and possibly sepsis.

I was done HSG test on 04.10.2017 and its report is as under: HYSTEROSALPINGOGRAPHY (HSG) Injection of contrast was made through a cannula placed in the cervix and skiagram nos. I, II & III were taken ...

When we examined him, he appeared cachexic, and was disoriented and afebrile but hemodynamically stable. We noted multiple dental caries. Chest radiography and computed tomography showed that he had ...

Ultrasonography showed complex, loculated pleural effusion in the right pleural cavity and a ruptured hydatid cyst in the liver (Figure 1B and 1C). Thoracentesis was performed, and bloody-purulent ...

The company’s lead drug, LTI-01, is in development for Loculated Pleural Effusion (LPE) and has successfully completed a clinical trial in LPE patients.

Within the left upper lobe there was a large cavity. A loculated left pleural effusion was also visible. Many poorly defined nodules lay within his right lung, mostly in the upper lobe.