Challenging Cases in Pleural Diseases

Najib Rahman, Radhika Banka, Najib Rahman, Radhika Banka

• Publisher: CRC Press
• Year: 2023
• Print ISBN: 9780367533717
• eBook ISBN: 9781003806479
• Topic: Medicine
• Subtopic: Diagnostics Imaging

Although we live in an era of evidence-based medicine, case histories have always had an important role in medical education. This book aims to provide complex case-based learning in pleural medicine, which is an integral part of respiratory medicine. It delivers practical knowledge learned through the experience of leading international authorities. Each case comprises clinical history, investigations, diagnosis, management, and detailed answers with discussion and key points. These interesting/challenging/puzzling real case histories will stimulate the reader's mind with interactive questions and answers, imparting in-depth knowledge in diagnosis and management of complex pleural cases.

Key Features:

• Contains high-quality illustrations of challenging cases to aid learning for speciality and certification exams
• Serves as an invaluable resource for pulmonologists, radiologists, critical care physicians, and trainees
• First case history-based book to be published exclusively for pleural medicine

Table of contents

• Cover
• Half-Title
• Title
• Copyright
• Dedication
• Contents
• Preface
• Editors
• Contributors
• 1 A post-operative pleural effusion
• 2 Pleural effusion and chest pain in an elderly gentleman
• 3 A difficult-to-drain effusion
• 4 A recurrent and persistent effusion
• 5 To ambulate or admit?
• 6 Right-sided pleural effusion in a young Nepalese man
• 7 Bilateral transudative effusions
• 8 Renal failure and pleural fluid
• 9 Management of pleural effusion in a patient with known liver disease
• 10 Pleural effusion and thickening after asbestos exposure
• 11 Recurrent effusion in a cyclist
• 12 Pleural thickening and effusion in a traveller
• 13 Recurrent effusion in a patient on amiodarone
• 14 A case of green pleural fluid
• 15 Pleural effusion in a patient with previous pancreatitis
• 16 Pleural effusion and abnormal bones
• 17 Pleural effusion in a patient with chronic myeloid leukaemia
• 18 An unusual pleural abnormality
• 19 Pneumothorax in chronic lung disease
• 20 Air in the wrong place
• 21 Recurrent chest pain in a young woman
• 22 An interesting case of recurrent pneumothoraces
• 23 Post-effusion drainage complication in an 86-year-old woman
• 24 Chest pain in a 65-year-old writer following pleural fluid aspiration
• 25 A simple pneumothorax?
• Index