Hemothorax is bleeding and blood accumulating around your lung. This usually happens after an injury to the chest area. Some underlying health conditions can lead to bleeding in the chest cavity, as ...

Your diaphragm is a thin muscle that separates your chest and abdomen. When you inhale, your diaphragm tightens and expands your chest cavity. A paralyzed diaphragm doesn’t tighten as it should when ...

When Brock Jones took his shirt off at a pool party with some friends last summer, he didn't think twice about his sunken chest cavity—until a friend pointed it out. "Why is there a big hole in your ...

A pleurectomy is a surgical procedure to remove part or all of the pleura, a membrane that lines the lungs and chest cavity. The procedure treats empyema — an infection of the pleural cavity — and ...

Bengaluru: In an extremely rare case, Doctors at Fortis Hospital, Nagarbhavi, successfully treated a 73-year-old woman ...

Q: I had a sudden, twisting jolt when I jumped off a ladder and within a day my chest started to really hurt when I moved or breathed. It become incredibly painful when I coughed or sneezed. Even ...

A middle-aged man whose heart had expanded to fill his entire chest cavity has been diagnosed with an extremely rare condition known as Wall to Wall Heart. In a case report published in the British ...

Thoracic endometriosis is endometriosis that grows in the lungs or chest. It is an uncommon complication of this disease. Because it is rare, thoracic endometriosis is often misdiagnosed or diagnosed ...

The Free Press talked to Dr. Panagis Galiatsatos, a pulmonologist at Johns Hopkins in Baltimore, about the nature of ...

A hiatal hernia can increase the risk of GERD, as the stomach’s upper part pushes into the chest cavity, hindering proper food passage and diaphragm pressure on the esophagus, which can lead to ...