Thoracentesis is a procedure in which a doctor uses a needle and catheter to remove excess fluid from the space between your lungs and the wall of your chest, known as the pleural space. You might ...

Use of routine thoracentesis in addition to medical therapy yielded no significant benefits for adults with heart failure and pleural effusions, according to a new study. For patients with acute heart ...

Introduction: Therapeutic thoracentesis is highly effective in providing symptomatic improvement in patients with large volume pleural effusion (PE). However, some physiological effects of pleural ...

(HealthDay)—The proportion of paracentesis and thoracentesis procedures performed by radiologists is continuing to increase, according to a study published online Aug. 14 in the Journal of Vascular ...