Thoracic-duct cannulation was performed 1 hour before an end-to-side portacaval shunt. When the thoracic duct, which was 9 to 10 mm. in diameter, was opened hemorrhagic lymph escaped under pressure.

Early data show that thoracic duct decompression with a novel catheter-based system on top of IV loop diuretics safely lowered congestion in patients with acute decompensated HF compared with ...

B.S., a 26-year-old Negro, was admitted to Bellevue Hospital on June 27, 1962, because of postprandial bloating and epigastric and mid-abdominal soreness of 5 months' duration.

Evidence-based recommendations on percutaneous thoracic duct embolisation for persistent chyle leak. In this procedure, under general anaesthesia, ultrasound and X-rays are used to create an image of ...

This report clarifies the functional significance of the thoracic duct by tracing its evolutionary development to selection of a mechanism which pumps lymph into blood.

Dumont and Rifkind recently proposed that the New World monkey, the sloth and the bat have evolved only a rudimentary form of thoracic duct because these animals hang upside down from trees1.