A young woman with diabetes mellitus and subsequent renal insufficiency developed a massive left-sided pleural effusion secondary to continuous ambulatory peritoneal dialysis (CAPD). There was no increase in weight, and she was free from oedema and fever. Thoracocentesis yielded a clear, yellow ...
Beware the left sided pleural effusion!doi:http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/bmj.328.7441.698Anthony N GlaserBMJ
Left sided pleural effusions, ascites, pericardial cyst are mistaken for pericardial effusions. Loculated pericardial effusions can sometimes be difficult to delineate on TTE. The differential diagnosis of various “solid” echoes within a pericardial effusion include inflammatory tissue, neoplastic ...
Thus, in patients with prolonged fever and systemic symptoms, a 'bland' left-sided pleural effusion may be a diagnostic clue to underlying inflammation of large thoracic arteries. Pleural irritation due to its anatomical proximity to the large arteries on the left side of the thorax may underlie...
Massive left-sided pleural effusion in a 35-year-old man was initially diagnosed as idiopathic spontaneous chylothorax and treated with serial thoracentese... M Kaptanoglu,A Hatipoglu - 《Scandinavian Cardiovascular Journal Scj》 被引量: 3发表: 2001年 Left-sided inferior vena cava implications for...
Bedside chest X-ray showed significant left pleural effusion Full size image Discussion and conclusions Intramyocardial dissecting hematoma (IDH), also known as intramural hematoma, myocardial dissecting hematoma, or myocardial hematoma, is a rare and life-threatening mechanical complication of MI with hi...
Left-sided heart failureor left ventricular failure (LVF)is a reduction in the output from the left ventricle. The pressure in the left atrium increases as the oxygen-rich blood from the lungs are backed up since the left ventricle is not pushing out this blood fast enough or efficiently. ...
Isolated Eosinophilic Pleural Effusion A3 8-year-old previously healthy man presented to an outside hospital with nonproductive cough, shortness of breath, left-sided chest pain, fevers, chills,... Y Chen,TN Gandhi,SK Cinti,... - 《Infectious Disease in Clinical Practice》 被引量: 0发表: ...
(four cycles) and radiation therapy to the chest field. Her past medical history also included hypertension, hepatic dysfunction secondary to congestive hepatopathy, right-sided pleural effusion and cardiac cachexia. After three cycles of adriamycin, her echocardiogram showed an ejection fraction (EF) ...
Hepatic Hydrothorax patients with hepatic hydrothorax had what may be considered atypical presentations, including left-sided only effusions, or pleural effusion without ascites. ... A Cardenas,T Kelleher,S Chopra - 《Medicine》 被引量: 1发表: 2014年 ...