Point-of-care lung ultrasonography allows for the assessment of patients with acute dyspnea, which is usually associated with pneumonia, pulmonary edema, pleural effusion, or pneumothorax and may ...

Pneumothorax occurs when air collects or accumulates in the space between the chest wall and the lung, which doctors refer to as the pleural cavity. This causes the lung to deflate or collapse ...

Sudden lung collapse, known as spontaneous pneumothorax, can strike unexpectedly, leaving individuals gasping for relief.

Pleurisy, pleural effusion, and pneumothorax are the three primary pleural diseases. Common symptoms include chest pain, shortness of breath, fatigue, and coughing.

For patients diagnosed with catamenial pneumothorax and/or thoracic endometriosis who have a high probability of recurrent pneumothorax, surgical intervention should be considered as a first-line ...

Study Supports Conservative Care. Decompensated heart failure is a common reason for hospitalization, and many patients present with pleural effusions, said Emily DuComb, DO, in an interview.

A pneumothorax happens when air gets into the pleural space, putting pressure on the lung and causing it to collapse. Symptoms include chest pain, coughing, a fast heart rate, and shortness of breath.

Among the X-rays assessed by the AI tools, the highest area under the receiver operating characteristic curve was observed for pleural effusion (range, 0.94-0.97), followed by pneumothorax (range ...

Source Reference: Plesner LL, et al "Commercially available chest radiograph AI tools for detecting airspace disease, pneumothorax, and pleural effusion" Radiology 2023; DOI: 10.1148/radiol.231236 ...

Sensitivities and specificities of AI tools were 72% to 91% and 62% to 86% for airspace disease, 62% to 95% and 83% to 97% for pleural effusion, and 63% to 90% and 98% to 100% for pneumothorax ...

Qure.ai, a leading innovator in medical imaging AI, has announced a pivotal 510(k) FDA clearance for its AI-enabled chest x-ray solution – qXR, under two critical findings. Qure’s qXR has now been ...