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Has anyone experienced recurrent pleural effusion with no clear cause
Lung Health | Last Active: Dec 13, 2025 | Replies (18)Comment receiving replies
I am going thru the same thing...
I tried to reply to you but it posted below... I'm trying to figure out this plate form....
I get my biopsy report this Tuesday... glad to hear yours are negative. Hoping mine are the same.
My plural effusion is filling back up for the 4th time since sept. 3rd... I've seen 6 different Dr.s no one knows why it keeps filling up...
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@bz1776
Oh my goodness welcome. It’s rare to find people going through the same issue, but now I’ve found three, so it seems like this is becoming more common.
Did you just have a biopsy, or what kind of surgical procedure did you have? Was it a pleuroscopy or VATS? If you had VATS, you likely would have been in the hospital for about five days.
What brought you to the ER? Has this been going on for a couple of months now?
As you read my story, I had nine thoracenteses before I had surgery. I’m just trying to understand what type of surgery you had. It doesn’t seem like you had pleurodesis or a VATS procedure to seal the lung.
I’m assuming you may have only had a biopsy to determine the cause. When you had the thoracenteses, was the fluid tested, and did everything come back inconclusive?