Hydrothorax

About: Hydrothorax is a research topic. Over the lifetime, 1243 publications have been published within this topic receiving 19131 citations.

Pulmonary edema and hydrothorax in swine produced by fumonisin B1, a toxic metabolite of Fusarium moniliforme.

Abstract: Pulmonary edema and hydrothorax were observed in mature swine that died approximately 5 days after consuming corn screenings. These postmortem observations were reproduced in younger swine (16-24 kg) that died within 1 week when fed the corn screenings under experimental conditions. Additionally, pulmonary edema and hydrothorax occurred in a pig (7.1 kg) that died after receiving 4 daily intravenous injections of fumonisin B1. A fungus was isolated from the corn screenings that is identical to Fusarium moniliforme MRC-826 in colony morphology and under microscopic examination.

Mechanics of the pleural space.

Abstract: The sections in this article are: 1 Mechanical Coupling Between Lung and Chest Wall 1.1 Factors Holding Lung Against Chest Wall 1.2 Definitions: Pleural Liquid Pressure and Pleural Surface Pressure 2 Pleural Liquid 2.1 Volume 2.2 Physicochemical Features and Pleural Permeability 2.3 Cells 2.4 Thickness 2.5 Pressure 2.6 Exchange 3 Pleural Surface Pressure 3.1 Topography 3.2 Nature of the Vertical Gradient 3.3 Special Conditions 4 Liquid Pressure, Surface Pressure, and Liquid Thickness at Various Lung Heights and Volumes 4.1 Hydrothorax

Complications of percutaneous nephrolithotomy

Abstract: Of 582 patients who underwent percutaneous nephrolithotomy, 4% had complications. The most common complications were fever (23%) and bleeding necessitating transfusion (12%). Extravasation was seen in 7% of patients and transient ureteral obstruction in 6%. Other complications included pneumothorax or hydrothorax, pneumonia/atelectasis, paralytic ileus, nephrostomy-tube dislodgment or urine drainage from the flank lasting more than 1 week, significant infection, urinoma formation, renal pelvic laceration, ureteral avulsion, ureteropelvic or ureteral stricture, bowel injury, or escape of stone fragments into the retroperitoneum. Seven patients (1%) required immediate surgery: four to repair renal pelvic lacerations, one to repair a ureteral avulsion, and two to control bleeding after nephrostomy-tube removal when embolization failed. Four patients required delayed surgery for ureteral or ureteropelvic junction strictures, which may have been caused by a tissue reaction to the stones rather than by the procedure itself. There were two deaths--one from respiratory failure in a patient with severe interstitial pulmonary fibrosis and chronic renal failure and the other from myocardial infarction in an obese diabetic patient with hypertension.

Pathogenesis and treatment of hydrothorax complicating cirrhosis with ascites.

Abstract: Excerpt Hydrothorax has long been recognized as a complication of cirrhosis, but there has been much speculation as to its origin. Higgins and his colleagues (1) suggested it forms from the plasma ...