This in silico study presents the use of a virtual patient to investigate the impact of large pleural effusion (PE) and therapeutic thoracentesis (TT) on hemidiaphragm function and arterial blood ...

Oxygen saturation was 96% on room air. A chest radiograph (CXR) confirmed right base atelectasis and new elevated right hemidiaphragm (figure 1a,b) compared with a CXR 7 months earlier (figure 1a). CT ...

Skeletal muscle fibers display a wide diversity in size both within individual muscles and among different muscles. This heterogeneity in muscle fiber diameter is initiated during development and ...