or pleural effusion, is a condition in which the pleura, two large, thin layers of tissue that separate your lungs from your chest wall becomes inflamed. Not all patients will need drainage and ...

Second, unmeasured confounding or residual confounding by indication for the method of pleural drainage may occur ... as the size and character of the effusion. We suspect that patients with ...

Objective: To determine the comparative effectiveness of common pleural drainage procedures for treatment of pneumonia complicated by parapneumonic effusion (ie, complicated pneumonia).

and are most commonly used to treat pneumothorax or pleural effusion. Generally, a unilateral thoracostomy tube is sufficient to resolve clinical manifestations of disease and to drain the ...