Pleural Effusion

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My daughter Katherine who was 12 at the time of open heart surgery in April 2006. The right side of her heart never really recovered. She ended up having a pleuradisis in August 2006 because of fluid build up around that right lung. The pleuradisis did help the fluid around the lungs but ended up in her abdominal cavity instead.
Shortley after this she was put on the heart transplant list. We had to go down to Toronto and wait 5 months for the new heart and in the mean time this fluid that w...Read the full article