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Page 2510 1 A The idea of a pleurodesis is to obliterate 2 the space between the visceral and parietal pleura. 3 The visceral pleura is the lining of the -4 the pleural lining of the lung and the parietal pleura 5 is the pleural lining of the chest wall. 6 And that space between those two, which is 7 normally no space at all, becomes filled with fluid, 8 and as that fluid accumulates, you don't inflate the 9 lung because you round out the lung with fluid. 10 The idea with pleurodesis is drain the fluid 11 and put something into the chest that scars down that 12 space between the two pleuras preventing the 13 accumulation of fluid, and that is called 14 pleurodesis. 15 Q Now, did there come a time when Mr. Grewe 16 was hospitalized again sometime after that in about 17 January of 1993? 18 A Yes. 19 Q This is one of the discharge summaries from 20 the January 30th of 1993 admission to North Arundel 21 Hospital.