What is your approach to the management of persistent hydropneumothorax due to a non expandable lung?  

This depends on the clinical scenario and really, relating to patient factors. For instance, if a patient is young without many co-morbidities and the non-expandable lung is related to a 'benign' etiology (i.e. empyema that has resolved and is now a transudative effusion), then surgical consultatio...