ATS 2012, SAN FRANCISCO – Prior treatment with inhaled corticosteroids in patients with respiratory disorders who develop community acquired pneumonia (CAP) is associated with a lower incidence and ...

Chest ultrasound can serve as a viable alternative to chest CT in the evaluation of pediatric patients with complicated pneumonia and parapneumonic effusion (a build-up of fluid between the lung and ...

A 50-year-old woman presented with a short history of loss of weight and appetite, constipation, right-sided abdominal pain, unsteady gait and headache. Physical examination revealed a soft nontender ...

Pleural empyema is the condition of the pleural cavity when initially sterile pleural effusion has become infected. In the majority of cases, it is of parapneumonic origin. Parapneumonic effusions and ...

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A 72-year-old man with ischemic cardiomyopathy and heart failure with reduced ejection fraction presented to his physician with cough and shortness of breath associated with a low-grade fever for the ...

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A previously healthy 17-year-old boy presented to his family physician with an increasingly productive cough and fever of 5 days’ duration. Based on a clinical diagnosis of atypical pneumonia, he was ...

Novel non-invasive biomarkers for the precise diagnosis of malignancy in pleural effusion (PE) are needed. The aim of this study was to determine the diagnostic accuracy of calprotectin for predicting ...

A 24-year-old sailor presented to the emergency department describing a seven-day history of shortness of breath, occasional substernal chest pain, increasing abdominal girth, and nausea and vomiting.