NOUN
- accumulation of fluid in the pleural cavity (the space between the lungs and the walls of the chest) often resulting from disease of the heart or kidneys
How To Use hydrothorax In A Sentence
- Hepatic hydrothorax is a complication of cirrhosis in patients with ascites.
- Aggressive treatment of hydrothorax and ascites can lead easily to hepatic encephalopathy.
- Like CCAMs, a fetal bronchopulmonary sequestration can also cause fetal hydrops, either from the mass effect or from a tension hydrothorax that results from fluid or lymph secretion from the bronchopulmonary sequestration. Bronchopulmonary sequestration and Congenital Cystic Adenomatoid
- There was 1 case of residual tumor cells at the esophageal margin, 1 case of hydrothorax and hydrops of costal bed, no costal chondritis, pneumothorax and fistula formation.
- Two weeks after discharge the hepatic hydrothorax had completely resolved.
- Hepatic hydrothorax originates secondary to ascitic fluid movement from the abdominal cavity to the pleural space via defects in the diaphragm.
- There was bilateral hydrothorax and moderate pulmonary congestion associated with a passively congested liver.