Challenging Cases in Pleural Diseases

Professor Najib M Rahman - Consultant Respiratory Physician at the Oxford University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, UK; Director of the Oxford Respiratory Trials Unit, University of Oxford (Churchill Hospital, Oxford, UK)Dr Radhika Banka - Consultant Respiratory Physician at PD Hinduja National Hospital & Medical Research Centre, Mumbai, India

• 1. A post operative pleural effusion 2. Pleural effusion and chest pain in an elderly gentleman 3. A difficult to drain effusion 4. A recurrent and persistent effusion 5. To ambulate or admit? 6. Right sided pleural effusion in a young Nepalese man 7. Bilateral transudative effusions 8. Renal failure and pleural fluid 9. Management of pleural effusion in a patient with known liver disease 10. Pleural effusion and thickening after asbestos exposure 11. Recurrent effusion in a cyclist 12. Pleural thickening and effusion in a traveller 13. Recurrent effusion in a patient on amiodarone 14. A case of green pleural fluid 15. Pleural effusion in a patient with previous pancreatitis 16. Pleural effusion and abnormal bones 17. Pleural effusion in a patient with Chronic Myeloid Leukemia 18. An unusual pleural abnormality 19. Pneumothorax in chronic lung disease 20. Air in the wrong place 21. Recurrent chest pain in a young woman 22. An interesting case of recurrent pneumothoraces 23. Post effusion drainage complication in a 86 year old gentleman 24. Chest pain in a 65 year old writer post pleural fluid aspiration 25. A simple pneumothorax?