Background: Ascites and pleural effusion are well recognized complications of pancreatic diseases. Drug therapy of these is limited by high cost, prolonged hospitalization and failure rates ...

Safe Outpatient Treatment of CNS Lymphoma Achieved by Using Glucarpidase After High-Dose Methotrexate ...

Introduction and objectives Chest X-ray (CXR), CT and Ultrasound (US) are commonly used to evaluate the size of pleural effusions. Accurate description of size is important in the communication of ...

largely due to an increase in the number of macrophages. BAL provides a relatively noninvasive means of assessing some occupational exposures, for example, asbestos bodies in the lavage fluid ...

Radioactive gold has found its greatest success and widest application, however, in the attempt to eliminate the intractable formation of fluid in the pleural and peritoneal cavities in ...

If you have ever run out of windshield washer fluid when you didn’t have any more on hand, you may have wondered whether you really need special fluid or if you could just use plain water instead.

Our research will focus two diseases. Firstly is pleural infection, a complication of pneumonia resulting in fluid accumulation in the lung lining, with a high mortality rate. Macrophages are the most ...

Background The immune suppression mechanisms in pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma (PDAC) remain unknown, but preclinical studies have implicated macrophage-mediated immune tolerance. Hence, pathways ...