Background Pleural effusion is common in routine medical practice and can be due to many
different underlying diseases. Precise differential diagnostic categorization is essential, as …

Malignant pleural effusions (MPE) are a common pathology, treated by respiratory
physicians and thoracic surgeons alike. In recent years, several well-designed randomized …

Conservative management can be considered for the treatment of minimally symptomatic
(ie, no significant pain or breathlessness and no physiological compromise) or …

Pleural Disease This review discusses the substantial advances that have been made in our
understanding of pleural biology and related pathophysiology, as well as in the …

The American Association for Thoracic Surgery consensus guidelines for the management of
empyema - The Journal of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery Skip to Main Content …

Pleural infection is a common condition encountered by respiratory physicians and thoracic
surgeons alike. The European Respiratory Society (ERS) and European Society of Thoracic …

The COVID-19 pandemic, characterised by a fast and global spread during the first months
of 2020, has prompted the development of a structured set of recommendations for cancer …

Background Empyema refers to pus in the pleural space, commonly due to adjacent
pneumonia, chest wall injury, or a complication of thoracic surgery. A range of therapeutic …

SIR produces its Standards of Practice documents by using the following process. Topics of
relevance and timeliness are conceptualized by the Standards of Practice Committee …

Chest tube insertion is a common procedure usually done for the purpose of draining
accumulated air or fluid in the pleural cavity. Small-bore chest tubes (≤ 14F) are generally …