IN the 1908 Christian Herter Lectures at Bellevue Hospital, Starling 1 emphasized the important influence of changes in hepatic interstitial-fluid formation on flow and composition of thoracic-duct ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . A minimally invasive catheter-based system could reduce congestion in patients hospitalized with acute ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Device-based thoracic duct decompression reduced congestion safely in patients with acute decompensated heart ...

Evidence-based recommendations on percutaneous thoracic duct embolisation for persistent chyle leak. In this procedure, under general anaesthesia, ultrasound and X-rays are used to create an image of ...

THIS paper was written to present a case of extensive chylothorax and chyloperitoneum secondary to a thrombus occluding the thoracic duct. The patient had a long venous catheter introduced through a ...

Figure 1: Detection of a previously uncharacterized vascular system in the zebrafish. Figure 5: Assembly and origins of the zebrafish lymphatic thoracic duct. In this study, we have shown the ...

Thoracic outlet syndrome refers to a group of conditions that develop when the blood vessels or nerves in the thoracic outlet become compressed. The thoracic outlet is the narrow space between your ...