Pleural effusion, sometimes called water on the lung, is a buildup of fluid between the lungs and the chest cavity. It can result from pneumonia, heart failure, cancer, and other conditions ...

The collapse of one or both lungs can lead to a buildup of air or gas in the pleural cavity. The most common symptom is sudden pain in one side and shortness of breath.

Between those sides of the boxes and the lungs is an airtight cavity. In the partial vacuum of those pleural cavities the lungs expand and collapse, expand and collapse with each breath.

A pleural infection is the bacterial invasion of the lining between your lung and chest cavity. The most common cause of pleural infection is pneumonia. Empyema is an infection of the fluid in ...

Point-of-care lung ultrasonography allows for the assessment of patients with acute dyspnea, which is usually associated with pneumonia, pulmonary edema, pleural effusion, or pneumothorax and may ...

What We Know About the Lung Cavity and Immune Cells. The pleural cavity, home to our newly discovered macrophages, has remained somewhat enigmatic, its precise influence on immune responses to ...

The surgeon sticks a hollow needle into the pleural cavity of the tubercular lung and lets some air, oxygen or nitrogen flow in. The lung collapses.

X-ray examination showed a collapsed, condensed lung and a hydropneumothorax in the rigid pleural cavity . This was a typical history of internal perforation of a chronic pleural exudate.

Pleural Effusion. Lung cancer can cause fluid to collect in the space between the lungs and your chest wall. ... Your doctor uses a needle or catheter to drain the excess fluids in your chest cavity.

Interventional pulmonologists are highly trained specialists who use advanced, non-surgical therapies to treat your respiratory system. Interventional pulmonologists have experience with a broad range ...

We used flow cytometry and microscopy to show that fluorescently-labeled pleural macrophages (PMs) migrate from the pleural cavity into the lung after infection with pH1N1 A/California/04/2009 ...