Pleural manometry may be useful for immediately detecting an unexpandable lung, which may coexist when any pleural fluid accumulates. Pleural manometry may improve patient safety when removing large amounts of pleural fluid. The basics of pleural space mechanics are discussed as they apply to the ...
This interpretation is frequently cited as a reason for the variability in esophageal manometry and the inaccuracy of pulmonary mechanics measurements in preterm infants (15, 18, 19). Our findings measuring esophageal pressure at two sites simultaneously in a group of preterm infants of similar birth...
Preliminary processing of tomographic images was performed by the method of median filtration [12,31,49,50] to eliminate possible interference in the form of pulsed noise. Methods of digital filtering, image segmentation and analysis, fluid dynamics, signal processing and statistical analysis are used...
The ability of the lung to re-expand after pleural fluid withdrawal can be reliably assessed by measuring pleural pressure (Ppl) during thoracentesis. Thus, pleural manometry has been increasingly used to assess local abnormalities of lung mechanics in patients with pleural effusion (PE) [8,9,10...