After The Times published an interview with John Green about his new book on tuberculosis, many readers wrote to share their ...

Dr Arvind Kohli India has the dubitable honor of being ranked first in the world with regards to thoracic disease burden, ...

New research has found that delivering a stronger form of the tuberculosis vaccine directly to the lungs can help generate ...

Some patients with highly drug-resistant tuberculosis could benefit from a shorter treatment with fewer drugs, while others ...

Background Tuberculous pleurisy is traditionally indicated by extreme lymphocytosis in pleural fluid and low yield of effusion culture. However, there is considerable inconsistency among previous ...

Pleural tuberculosis is the most common type of extrapulmonary tuberculosis and the main cause of pleural effusion. The European Respiratory Society reported that 6% of pleural effusion among adults ...

Tuberculous pleurisy results from inflammation of the membrane that covers the lungs (the pleura) caused by exposure to Mycobacterium tuberculosis bacteria infecting the lungs. This results in a build ...

Background A malignant pleural effusion (MPE) can be associated with debilitating dyspnoea. Determining optimal surgical management involves balancing the quality of palliation, degree of short-term ...

Introduction Medical thoracoscopy (MT) is crucial in the investigation of unexplained pleural effusions. It is increasingly performed as a day case procedure with indwelling pleural catheter (IPC) ...

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