Often during an informal talk, you might have heard your relatives, friends or neighbours telling you about a particular person who had collection of water inside the chest around the lung and got treated by a doctor for a long time. The treating doctor evacuated the water collected inside the chest through a syringe-needle. Sometimes you might have heard that one of your friends or relatives had to get the collected water out of the chest with the help of a chest tube as syringe-needle failed to evacuate the collected water completely. Sometimes, one of your acquaintances might have told you that the water got refilled inside the chest even after previous successful evacuation through syringe or chest tube.
Dr. K. K. Pandey is a Senior Consultant in Thoracic & Endothoracic Surgery at Indraprastha Apollo Hospital, New Delhi, with 30+ years’ experience in lung cancer surgery, chest tumors, pleural diseases, VATS, esophageal surgery and minimally invasive thoracic procedures. He is also a dedicated health writer and educator.