A 66-year-old woman presented for evaluation after developing effusion around her left lung. She had been diagnosed previously with extensive-stage small-cell lung cancer, which was treated. The ...

Pleurisy or pleuritis is an inflammation of the pleura, the tissue that protects and cushions the lungs. It can present with pain and may be caused by different types of inflammation or infection.

Inflammation of the parietal pleura-outer, epithelial lining of the lungs is known as pleurisy (or pleuritis). The fast moving pain signals in the parietal pleura cause severe and local pain in the ...

PREGUNTA: Doctor: hace como mes y medio me dio un acceso de tos, pero no le di importancia porque había cargado cosas llenas de polvo; sin embargo, después de tres días, nuevamente tuve un ataque de ...

FIBRINOUS pericarditis is a well known feature of the uremic state. However, fibrinous pleuritis with pleural pain and friction rub in uremia has received little recognition. During the past 18 months ...

La actriz y cantante Laura Flores compartió que estuvo bajo tratamiento médico durante dos meses por pleuritis. Flores relató en un encuentro con los mediosque la contaminación ambiental en la Ciudad ...