He said he needed a chest tube to re-inflate his collapsed lung. Kennedy News and Media. 5. Hatfield admitted he didn’t connect his vaping to his initial lung collapse.

A 32-year-old was forced to crawl in A&E in agony after whet he initially dismissed as a digestive problem turned out to be a collapsed lung trigged by his frequent use of the devices.

Portland Trail Blazers guard CJ McCollum was diagnosed with a pneumothorax (collapsed right lung) and will be out indefinitely, the team announced on Tuesday. McCollum sustained the injury in the ...

Treatment for a collapsed lung typically involves the removal of excess air with the use of a needle or chest tube. However, a small pneumothorax may heal on its own.

Brown and colleagues included 8,469 trauma patients in the study: 1,337 who received PHND (median age 37 years, 82% men) and 7,132 matched peers who had a chest tube placed (median age 32, 85.3% men).

Plastic surgeons have called for greater awareness of the risks of liposuction procedures, after a 45-year-old woman developed a life-threatening collapsed lung as a result of the operation.. The ...

My lung collapsed 6 times before I was finally diagnosed with a rare form of endometriosis . ... Soon, my lung reinflated with the help of a chest tube and I was discharged from the hospital.

In instances where only a small portion of the lung has collapsed, and the pneumothorax is considered limited, treatment may not be needed. The excess air in the pleural space is reabsorbed and ...

CORPUS CHRISTI, Texas — The Gregory-Portland Wildcats are off a strong start with a 2-0 record after the first two weeks of the season. But in their game against the Calallen Wildcats in week ...

At the hospital in Cuenca — the city where I have been living for the past six years and about 200 miles south of Quito, Ecuador — I had a tube running between my ribs into the space between ...