Gulrajani, R. (2008) Avoiding hospital admission to drain pleural effusions. This is an extended version of the article published in Nursing Times; 104: 14, 30-31. This article describes the ...

CALGB 170601: A phase III double blind trial of duloxetine to treat painful chemotherapy-induced peripheral neuropathy (CIPN). This is an ASCO Meeting Abstract from the 2012 ASCO Annual Meeting I.

Unlike current approaches that require frequent outpatient drainage through an externalized catheter or prolonged hospitalization for invasive pleurodesis procedures, Pleural Dynamics' Automatic ...

You have full access to this article via your institution. Proper dressing and fixation of PICCs, dedicated clinical monitoring and immediate suspicion of catheter-related complications are essential ...

Pleural Dynamics, an early-stage medical device startup developing solutions for the management of chronic, recurrent effusions and refractory ascites, has received FDA 510(k) clearance for its ...

Neutropenic complications with carboplatin AUC 5 and paclitaxel 175 mg/m2 (CP) regimen in Indian patients: A community-based single center experience. This is an ASCO Meeting Abstract from the 2012 ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . The average health care cost per patient in the indwelling pleural catheter (IPC) group was $40,179 vs. $46,640 ...

Boerhaave syndrome is a pressure‑induced rupture of the esophageal wall and is associated with high morbidity and mortality. 1,2 Despite reports of successful endoscopic management of esophageal ...

Gathering of initial clinical data guided by the differential diagnosis can orient care by identifying patients in need of urgent evaluation and by highlighting possible etiologies. The initial ...

IT is the unfortunate lot of some patients dying of metastatic cancer of the breast, lung, cervix and so forth to be plagued by severe dyspnea due to recurrent malignant pleural effusions. Many of ...