Table of Contents
Table of Contents
Preface
Chapter 1. Clinical Presentation and Imaging of Pleural Effusions
(Rahul Khosla, MD, Amandeep S. Bawa, MD, and Kavita Vyas, MD, Pulmonary & CCM Section, Veterans Affairs Medical Center, Washington DC, US)
Chapter 2. Etiology and Diagnostic Work-Up of Pleural Effusions
(Amandeep S. Bawa, MD, Montserrat Diaz-Abad, MD, Pulmonary & Critical Care Medicine, Veterans Affairs Medical Center, The George Washington University, Washington, DC, US, and others)
Chapter 3. Transudative Pleural Effusions
(Kavita Vyas, MD, Amandeep Bawa, MD, and Rahul Khosla, MD, Pulmonary & CCM Section, Veterans Affairs Medical Center, Washington DC, US)
Chapter 4. Parapneumonic Effusions and Empyema
(Warren Naselsky, MD, Van K. Holden, MD, Lindsey B. Black, Ashutosh Sachdeva, MBBS, and Edward M. Pickering, MD, Division of Thoracic Surgery, Department of Surgery, University of Maryland School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland, US, and others)
Chapter 5. Malignant Pleural Effusions
(Amrik S. Ray, MD, Van K. Holden, MD, Or Kalchiem-Dekel, MD, Edward M. Pickering, MD, Ashutosh Sachdeva, MBBS, Section of Interventional Pulmonology, Division of Pulmonary, Critical Care, and Sleep Medicine, Department of Medicine, University of Maryland School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland, US)
Chapter 6. Hemothorax, Chylothorax, and Pseudochylothorax
(Katie R. Jeans, MD, Stephen Bujarski, MD, Venkata Bandi, MD, and Donald R. Lazarus, MD, Pulmonary, Critical Care, and Sleep Section, Baylor College of Medicine and the Michael E. DeBakey VA Medical Center, Houston, TX, US)
Chapter 7. Tuberculous and Fungal Pleural Effusion
(Ramasubramanian Balachandra, MD, and Janaki Deepak, MD, Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care, University Of Maryland School of Medicine, Baltimore, US, and others)
Chapter 8. Pleural Effusions in Rheumatological Diseases
(Georges Al-Helou, MD, and Rahul Khosla, MD, Pulmonary, Critical Care, and Sleep Medicine, George Washington University, Washington DC, US, and others)
Chapter 9. Miscellaneous Causes of Pleural Effusions
(Kewakebt Lemma, MD, Ivana Milojevic, MD, Akshay Bhatnagar, MD, and Rahul Khosla, MD, Pulmonary, Critical Care, and Sleep Medicine, The George Washington University, Washington DC, US, and others)
Chapter 10. Closed Pleural Biopsy and Pleuroscopy
(Justin Segraves, MD, Venkata Bandi, MD, and Donald R. Lazarus, MD, Pulmonary, Critical Care, and Sleep Section, Baylor College of Medicine and the Michael E. DeBakey VA Medical Center, Houston, TX, US)
Chapter 11. Interventional Management of Pleural Effusions
(Hyeon Yu, MD, Ari J. Isaacson, MD, Division of Vascular and Interventional Radiology, Department of Radiology, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC, US)
Chapter 12. Pleural Manometry
(Kurt Hu, MD, Terrill Huggins, MD, Malik Khan, MD, and Amit Chopra, MD, Pulmonary and Critical Care, Albany Medical College, Albany, NY, US, and others)
Chapter 13. Pleural Effusion Cases: Part 1
(Akshay Bhatnagar, MD, Kewakebt Lemma, MD, and Rahul Khosla, MD, Pulmonary, Critical Care, and Sleep Medicine, George Washington University, Washington DC, US)
Chapter 14. Pleural Effusion Cases: Part 2
(Ivana Milojević, MD, and Rahul Khosla, MD, Pulmonary, Critical Care, and Sleep Medicine, George Washington University, Washington DC, US, and others)
Index
Keywords: Pleural Effusions
Audience: Medical students, interns, residents pulmonary and critical care fellows, pulmonologists, interventional pulmonologists, thoracic surgeons, Physician assistants, Nurse practitioners and radiologists.