Modern day management of a unilateral pleural effusion
| Autor: | R K Panchal, Syed Ajmal, Dana Li, M Tufail |
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| Rok vydání: | 2021 |
| Předmět: |
medicine.medical_specialty
medicine.diagnostic_test Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) SARS-CoV-2 business.industry Pleural effusion Thoracoscopy Psychological intervention COVID-19 Unilateral pleural effusion General Medicine respiratory system medicine.disease respiratory tract diseases Pleural Effusion Current practice Humans Medicine Indwelling pleural catheter business Intensive care medicine Pandemics CME: Respiratory medicine |
| Zdroj: | Clin Med (Lond) |
| ISSN: | 1473-4893 1470-2118 |
| Popis: | Over 50 systemic conditions may affect the pleura and, thus, unilateral pleural effusions may present for a variety of reasons. Investigating the cause is essential to providing appropriate management. Various pleural interventions are available in current practice, but have varying diagnostic sensitivity. It is, therefore, vital to consider the intervention with the highest diagnostic yield appropriate to the particular clinical situation. The diagnostic pathway in unilateral pleural effusion is increasingly outpatient based, avoiding hospitalisation, which is particularly relevant with the recent COVID-19 pandemic. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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