The initial treatment regime for primary spontaneous pneumothorax (PSP) is generic and non-personalised, often involving a long hospital stay waiting for air leak to cease. This prospective study of ...

Where does this leave us in our understanding of the aetiology of PSP? A combination of factors is likely to be required for a patient to have a spontaneous pneumothorax: Patients, who may be ...

A WOMAN was convinced she was having a heart attack when her lung popped out of the blue while she was opening her 21st ...

The problems started the day after celebrating her 21st birthday in May 2022, when she was opening gifts started to ...

Background Management of pneumothorax in neonates requiring retrieval poses unique challenges, including decision to insert an intercostal catheter (ICC). We aimed to report the proportion and ...

A woman who had never smoked or vaped before has revealed the devastating moment she thought she was having a "heart attack" after her lungs collapased. Olivia Smith has recalled the frightening ...

A pleural effusion can be very small (detectable only by a chest X-ray or CT scan ... may be used in place of an indwelling catheter. Pneumothorax, also known as a collapsed lung, can develop ...

Behind these symptoms, she had a case of drainage refractor pneumothorax, which has been followed with chest X-rays at a local healthcare facility. In April 2022, still at the local hospital, the ...

The strongest form of such collective behaviour is spontaneous synchronization, in which the oscillators coordinate their dynamics in a decentralized way. Spontaneous synchronization occurs in ...