FINAL REPORT
 EXAMINATION: CHEST (PORTABLE AP)
 
 INDICATION: ___ year old woman with recent pleurocendesis // r/o ongoing
 pleural fluid collection, pneumonia r/o ongoing pleural fluid collection,
 pneumonia
 
 COMPARISON: Comparison to prior study dated ___ at 10:34
 
 FINDINGS: 
 
 Portable AP upright chest film ___ 807 is submitted.
 
 IMPRESSION: 
 
 No large effusions. A left-sided pacer remains in place. Mediastinal contours are stable. The heart remains enlarged. Right basilar pleural pigtail catheter remains in place. There is a tiny right apical pneumothorax. There is patchy opacity at the right base which may reflect re-expansion pulmonary edema, although patchy ateclectasis or pneumonia should also be considered. A rounded contour to the right medial lung base may reflect prominent epicardial fat when correlated with abdominal CT studies from ___ and ___, although a medial lung nodule cannot be entirely excluded. This can be re-assessed on followup imaging.
 
 NOTIFICATION: The patient's house staff, Dr. ___, was notified by
 phone on ___ at 13:10 at the time of discovery. He informed us
 that the pleural catheter has subsequently been removed.
