A case report describes a 26-year-old man whose right middle lobe twisted after chest tube drainage for primary spontaneous ...

Catheter-based mitral valve replacement was evaluated in 64 high-risk patients, with the study reporting high technical ...

Surgeons report that cutting chest drainage tubes short provided a less invasive alternative to fenestration in two patients ...

Researchers at the University of São Paulo (USP) in Brazil and their international collaborators have created a computational ...

This study recorded the radiation doses of staff in real-time on their chests and foreheads during 249 endourological procedures using fluoroscopy. Values varied by occupation and measurement location ...

Mikhail Oskarovich Varshavski, MD, also known as "Doctor Mike," has spent the last quarter-century pushing back against ...

The airlines have an on-call flight surgeon who makes the call on diversion based on information from the aircraft. Any medical professional onboard must prevent credentials before accessing the real ...

The lungs sit inside the chest, and each lung is wrapped in a thin, slippery double membrane. Between the two layers of that membrane is a narrow space called the pleural space. Normally it contains ...

A biopsy is when tissue is removed from lung nodules in order to learn about the makeup of the nodule. The removed tissue is examined under a microscope, which helps physicians diagnose or stage lung ...

A Connecticut woman suffered a collapsed lung, sepsis and other deadly complications after a hospital physician assistant "improperly inserted" a feeding tube into her airway, a lawsuit alleges. The ...

What’s a Transesophageal Echocardiogram? A transesophageal echocardiogram (TEE) is a type of ultrasound test. Your doctor puts a tube down your esophagus with an ultrasound device that takes a series ...

Researchers now believe that removing a woman's fallopian tubes could lower the risk of ovarian cancer by as much as 78%, according to a recent study. Dr. Cesar Castro, director of the Medical ...