What's the difference between pleural and thoracentesis?
Pleural
Definition:
(a.) Of or pertaining to the pleura or pleurae, or to the sides of the thorax.
Example Sentences:
(1) During control, no significant difference between systolic fluctuation (delta Pa) and pleural swings (delta Ppl) was found.
(2) Pleural or subpleural lesions were found in all cases.
(3) The increase in red blood cell mass was associated with an elevation in erythropoietic stimulatory activity in serum, pleural fluid, and tumor-cyst fluid as determined by the exhypoxic polycythemic mouse assay.
(4) In general, air from the mediastinum far more often enters the left pleural cavity than the right one.
(5) It was difficult to assess the diagnosis of malignant mesothelioma on isolated differentiated mesothelial cells in pleural fluids or biopsies.
(6) Additionally, several small vessels (rami pleurales pulmonales) originated from the esophageal branch (ramus esophagea) of the bronchoesophageal artery, traversed the pulmonary ligaments, and supplied the visceral pleura.
(7) Amphibole fibre counts were raised when compared with a non-occupationally exposed group and matched those seen in cases of pleural plaques, mild asbestosis, and mesothelioma.
(8) Although Hodgkin's disease was suggested on the basis of abnormal pleural fluid cytological preparations, the subsequent evaluation and clinical course did not support that diagnosis.
(9) The inappropriate placement of a patient's central venous catheter in the pleural space by the serendipitous injection of Tc-99m labeled red blood cells through the catheter during a GI bleeding study was discovered.
(10) Chest and abdominal scintigraphy after intraperitoneal injection of 99mTc-human serum albumin disclosed early filling of the pleural space by the radiopharmaceutical and suggested a diaphragmatic defect as the cause for this rare association.
(11) The decortication is aimed at removing the chronic pleural sack and the possible parenchymatous lesions and at the recovery of the maximum functional pulmonary parenchyma.
(12) Lungs were evaluated for the presence of wedge-shaped pleural-based densities and for the presence of an associated vascular sign.
(13) The main pathogenic mechanism is considered to be increased capillary permeability, especially of the ovarian vessels, causing acute body fluid shift from the intravascular compartment to the peritoneal and pleural cavities.
(14) The syndrome of ovarian hyperstimulation is an exceptional aetiology of pleural effusion.
(15) The benign localized mesothelioma is usually considered in the differential diagnosis of pleural tumors, but it is not related to asbestos exposure.
(16) Sustained intubation (7 days) was necessary in only two infants because of developing respiratory distress as a result of prematurity or recurrent pleural fluid accumulation.
(17) Her chest roentgenogram showed a moderate amount of pleural effusion in the left pleural cavity without infiltration in the lung fields and no evidence of swollen hilar or mediastinal lymphnodes.
(18) The pathologic stage, lymph node involvement, and pleural involvement were found to be the major determinants of prognosis (P less than 0.01).
(19) Three of the abscesses were intrapulmonary, and each lay adjacent to a pleural surface.
(20) In the case of a massive serous pleural effusion examination of the ingredients leads to diagnosis.
Thoracentesis
Definition:
(n.) The operation of puncturing the chest wall so as to let out liquids contained in the cavity of the chest.
Example Sentences:
(1) The therapeutic options included observation alone (40 occurrences), thoracentesis (6 occurrences), chest tube thoracostomy (102 occurrences), and thoracotomy (20 occurrences).
(2) Fifty patients had nondiagnostic physical and roentgenographic examinations and were believed at high risk for exploratory thoracentesis.
(3) Procedures with more than one complication included the following: left-sided cardiac catherization (18% probability of complication); arteriovenous shunt (60% probability); thoracentesis (19%); bronchoscopy (25%); and percutaneous liver biopsy (8%).
(4) The condition can be managed by conservative means consisting of adequate neck drainage and thoracentesis or chest tube drainage.
(5) To determine if CU was beneficial when thoracentesis was performed by clinicians or house staff, we evaluated prospectively 205 patients presenting with pleural effusion at 2 community teaching hospitals.
(6) Human macrophages obtained by thoracentesis had comparable levels of NBT reduction and O2.-generation.
(7) The imaging of pleural effusions by plain radiography, sonography, computed tomography (CT), and magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) has greatly facilitated the planning of both initial diagnostic thoracentesis and subsequent therapeutic management.
(8) All patients had previously undergone a thoracentesis together with an unguided pleural biopsy but had remained undiagnosed.
(9) Catheter migration occurred and effective drainage ceased after three days, but with tocolysis and bilateral thoracentesis, delivery was delayed another 48 hours to allow steroid therapy.
(10) Control of thoracentesis' efficiency as well as exact supervision of the disease's course are made feasible by repeated sonographic examinations.
(11) Focal pulmonary infarction resulting from entrapment of lung within a chest tube represents one of the complications of thoracentesis.
(12) If pleural fluid is seen on radiographs, thoracentesis must be performed.
(13) A definitive pleural symphysis was obtained in all cases but 2 (92% positive results): in 1 case, a further single thoracentesis of 400 ml was necessary, and in the 2nd case the patient died within 6 days from an acute evolution of her Hodgkin's disease.
(14) Fifty-nine consecutive patients with pleural effusions who were undergoing diagnostic or therapeutic thoracentesis in whom the etiology of the effusion could be determined were studied.
(15) In all patients, the diagnosis had been unobtainable by the usual diagnostic modalities of bronchoscopy, scalene node biopsy, mediastinoscopy, thoracentesis, or closed pleural biopsy.
(16) Thoracentesis was continued until the patient developed severe symptoms (chest pain or coughing), the pleural pressure dropped below -20 cm H2O, or no more fluid could be obtained.
(17) Conservative treatment was performed in 106, pleural drainage or thoracentesis in 29, and surgery in 60.
(18) If the thickness of the fluid on the decubitus radiograph is greater than 10 mm, a diagnostic thoracentesis should be performed.
(19) It can easily guide percutaneous procedures such as biopsy, thoracentesis, abscess drainage, catheterization of subclavian vein, etc.
(20) The PaO2 showed increase and P(A-a)O2 decrease but the PaCO2 not changes after thoracentesis 20 minutes and two hours.