Pleural Diseases: Clinical Cases and Real-World Discussions

Description

Using a unique, case-based approach, Pleural Diseases: Clinical Cases and Real-World Discussions brings you up to date with the latest advances in this fast-moving subspecialty. A wide variety of real-world challenges are presented along with multiple perspectives from expert pulmonologists who discuss and analyze each case collaboratively, replicating actual patient experiences and outcomes. This first-of-its-kind resource is ideal for practicing pulmonologists and fellows, interventional pulmonologists, critical care physicians, and others who are interested in an interactive approach to everyday clinical problems related to pleural disease.

Key Features

• Provides a unique, interactive approach to understanding the nuances and complexities of patient cases for both invasive and non-invasive therapies, drawing from real clinical cases and accompanying case discussions.
• Describes the approach taken by experts for each case, presenting the clinical reasoning on the most appropriate approaches and the possible therapies.
• Offers easy-to-read, templated information for every case: onset of symptoms, the entire diagnostic-therapeutic path including clinical and laboratory findings, and discussions on the clinical choices made in accordance with evidence-based medical procedures.
• Includes both positive and negative outcomes for a broader experience.
• Features more than 200 illustrations including x-rays, procedural photos, ultrasound, CT scans, and histopathology specimens, as well as video procedures for thoracentesis, chest tube placing, medical thoracoscopy, and insertion of indwelling pleural catheter.
• Addresses other common clinical issues such as the management of multimorbid elderly patients, the optimization of fluid balance, and the need to discontinue antiplatelet or anticoagulant therapy before invasive procedures.
• Enhanced eBook version included with purchase. Your enhanced eBook allows you to access all of the text, figures, and references from the book on a variety of devices

Table of Contents

1. PART I Malignancies
2. Malignant Pleural Effusion With Nonexpandable Lung and Hydropneumothorax After Thoracentesis
3. Claudio Sorino David Feller-Kopman Giampietro Marchetti
4. Pleural Plaques and Malignant Pleural Mesothelioma in a Patient With Previous Asbestos Exposure
5. Giampietro Marchetti Claudio Sorino David Feller-Kopman
6. Malignant Pleural Effusion in Metastatic Pulmonary Adenocarcinoma Complicated by Pulmonary Embolism
7. Claudio Sorino David Feller-Kopman Giampietro Marchetti Mario Spatafora
8. Squamous Cell Lung Cancer Complicating a Tuberculous Fibrothorax
9. Giampietro Marchetti Claudio Sorino David Feller-Kopman Stefano Elia
10. Malignant Pleural Mesothelioma With Trapped Lung
11. Claudio Sorino Filippo Lococo Giampietro Marchetti Abdul Hamid Alraiyes
12. Lung Adenocarcinoma With Diffuse Pleural Infiltration in a Young Nonsmoker Man
13. Hari Kishan Gonuguntla Nitesh Gupta Claudio Sorino David Feller-Kopman
14. Chylothorax Associated With Indolent Follicular Lymphoma
15. Filippo Lococo Claudio Sorino Giampietro Marchetti David Feller-Kopman
16. Part II Infections
17. Relapsing Unilateral Pleural Effusion Due to Unrecognized Tuberculosis
18. Claudio Sorino David Feller-Kopman Giampietro Marchetti Michele Mondoni
19. Loculated Parapneumonic Pleural Effusion Treated With Intracavitary Urokinase
20. Alessandro Zanforlin Claudio Sorino Michele Mondoni
21. Primary Pleural Empyema in a Hemodialysis Patient With CatheterRelated Bloodstream Infection
22. Claudio Sorino Fabio Pirracchio Sergio Agati Abdul Hamid Alraiyes
23. Pyopneumothorax in Necrotizing Pneumonia With Bronchopleural Fistula
24. Giampietro Marchetti Claudio Sorino Stefano Negri Valentina Pinelli
25. Pneumonia and Volume Overload Complicating Chronic Fibrothorax With Persistent Fluid Collection
26. Stefano Elia Claudio Sorino Giampietro Marchetti Stefano Negri Natalia Buda
27. Late Postpneumonectomy Bronchopleural Fistula With Pleural Empyema
28. Fabrizio Minervini Marco Scarci Claudio Sorino Pietro Bertoglio
29. Tuberculous Pleural Effusion and Pott Disease
30. Claudio Sorino Sergio Agati Stefano Negri Giampietro Marchetti
31. Part III Miscellanea
32. Cloudy Pleural Effusion in a Heavy Smoker With Rheumatoid Arthritis
33. Michele Mondoni Paolo Carlucci Claudio Sorino Giampietro Marchetti David Feller-Kopman
34. Calcified Pleural Plaques in a Man With Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease
35. Claudio Sorino Stefano Negri Sergio Agati David Feller-Kopman
36. Middle and Low Back Pain Due to Pulmonary Embolism With Ipsilateral Pleural Effusion
37. Claudio Sorino Alessandro Squizzato Natalia Buda Giampietro Marchetti David Feller-Kopman
38. Bilateral Asymmetrical Pleural Effusion Due to Congestive Heart Failure
39. Claudio Sorino Mario Tamburrini David Feller-Kopman
40. Posttraumatic Hemothorax and Pneumothorax in a Patient on Oral Anticoagulant
41. Claudio Sorino Alessandro Squizzato Francesco Inzirillo David Feller-Kopman
42. Pneumothorax After Transthoracic Needle Biopsy of the Lung
43. Claudio Sorino Cecilia Sampietro Angelo Calati Giuseppe Pepe
44. Primary Spontaneous Right Pneumothorax in a Patient With Pulmonary Bullae
45. Claudio Sorino Filippo Lococo Stefano Negri Stefano Elia Giampietro Marchetti
46. Index

Authors Biography

Claudio Sorino, MD, PhD, Professor of Medicine and Associate Medical Director, Respiratory Pathophysiology Unit, Department of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, Sant’Anna Hospital, Como, Italy

David Feller-Kopman, MD, Professor of Medicine, Director, Bronchoscopy and Interventional Pulmonology, Johns Hopkins University Hospital, Baltimore, Maryland USA

Giampietro Marchetti, MD, Associate Medical Director of Interventional Pulmonology, Department of Pulmonology, Spedali Civili, Brescia, Italy