BACKGROUND Hemorrhagic pleural effusion, especially in the right hemithorax rarely occurs as the sole presentation of pancreatitis. CASE PRESENTATION This article reports massive right-sided hemorrhagic pleural effusion as the sole manifestation of pancreatitis in a 16-year-old Iranian boy. The patient referred to Nemazee Hospital, the main hospital of southern Iran, with right-sided shoulder...

OBJECTIVE Herniation of abdominal contents through the diaphragm has been described in a variety of diaphragmatic defects and may occur secondary to diaphragmatic injury, either traumatic or iatrogenic. The aim of this study is to report a case of gastro-pleural fistula in a patient with traumatic diaphragmatic hernia. CASE PRESENTATION An 18-year-old male patient, with a past history of blun...

A young previously healthy male was hospitalized in intensive care unit due to progressively worsening dyspnea (mMRC grade 4), cough with scanty sputum and fever. He exhibited signs of acute respiratory failure including tachypnea (respiratory rate 40/m), cyanosis and oximetric oxygen saturation (SpO2) of 73 %. There was bronchial breathing on right hemithorax and coarse crackles on left side o...

At the time of his hospital admission, he was noted to be tachypneic at rest hut felt subjectively he had been clinically improving. His leukemia was still in remission by laboratory analysis. Clinical examinatiomi identified decreased breath sounds over the right side of his chest. A CXR revealed a neai@complete lucency of the right hemithorax and a slight shift of the mediastimsum to the oppo...

The present prospective study was designed to determine the prevalence of pleural effusion at approximately 28 days after cardiac surgery and their subsequent course. This consecutive case study included 389 patients; 312 had only coronary artery bypass graft surgery (CABG) surgery, 37 had both valve and CABG surgery, and 40 had only valve surgery. Chest radiographs were obtained approximately ...

A 14-year-old boy was admitted to our hospital due to persisting pleuritic pain in the right lower hemithorax, which presented after athletic activities. Chest X-ray showed a right hemothorax for which a chest tube was inserted. The patient’s medical history was positive for exostoses of both humeri and the left femur, for which he had undergone an operation at the age of 5 and 8 years, respect...

Cardiac injuries caused by knives and firearms are slightly increasing in our environment. We report the case of a 43-year-old male patient with a transmediastinal gunshot wound (TGSW) and a through-and-through cardiac wound who was hemodynamically stable upon his admission. He had an entrance wound below the left clavicle, with no exit wound, and decreased breath sounds in the right hemithorax...

Case report 76 year old woman who went to her local hospital with fever up to 39°C, brownish expectoration, left chest pain and breathlessness that has been increasing in recent weeks. She had a colostomy as a result of an adenocarcinoma colon intervention 18 years ago. She used wheelchair due to an ischemic stroke with paresis of the left lower limb during the postoperative. She had never smok...

Four thoracic evacuation techniques for pneumothorax elimination after diaphragmatic defect closure were compared in 40 canine cadavers. After creating a defect in the left side of the diaphragm, thoracic drainage was performed by thoracostomy tube insertion through the defect and a small (DD-SP) or large (DD-LP) puncture created in the caudal mediastinum, or through both the diaphragmatic defe...

A 35-year-old male presented with a history of chest wall pain and swelling. It was decided to perform a CT-scan of the thorax that revealed of a rib involvement in the right hemithorax (Fig 1). We evaluated the yield of core needle biopsy in patients that the was diagnosed lymphoproliferative disorder. Investigation abdominal and pelvic CT scan and blood tests were found no other lesions. The ...