Comparison case- ASYMPTOMATIC female

In this case, the heart is pulled TOWARD the side of the “white-out”.  This tells you that this is a volume-losing process, very different from the previous case of chylothorax.  In this patient, the entire right lung had been removed several years ago for lung cancer (a procedure called a pneumonectomy).  The heart has gradually shifted into the right hemithorax to take up the empty space.