Chest x-ray quiz. Why would this patient be breathless? Large left pleural effusion compressing, and hence collapsing the left lung, with more blood being delivered into the right pulmonary circulation.

Reading, Marea

Chest x-ray quiz. Why would this patient be breathless? Large left pleural effusion compressing, and hence collapsing the left lung, with more blood being delivered into the right pulmonary circulation. [electronic resource] - Australian critical care : official journal of the Confederation of Australian Critical Care Nurses Feb 2007 - 26, 32 p. digital

Publication Type: Case Reports; Journal Article

1036-7314


Diagnosis, Differential
Dyspnea--etiology
Humans
Pleural Effusion--complications
Pulmonary Circulation
Radiography, Thoracic