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If you have pleural effusion, does the liquid collect to the lower parts of the lung when sitting? doctor only checked lower part of back with doppler
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Yes: Rarely, the fluid collection gets walled in and become fixed. But otherwise the collection will fill the lower parts first on gravitational force.
Answered 10/18/2015
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