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Empyema [PDF]

Journal of Education and Teaching in Emergency Medicine, 2018
History of present illness: A 51-year-old male with congestive heart failure, previous myocardial infarctions, and a questionable history of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease presented to the emergency department with a chief complaint of shortness of breath.
Jonathan Patane
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Diversity in the composition of pleural cavity and oral cavity microbiota in different bacterial empyema. [PDF]

Front Microbiol
IntroductionRecent studies have proposed primary empyema and demonstrated a correlation between it and the microbial composition of the oral cavity.
Huang Y, Gao QH, Liu CJ, Su T, Liu J, Liang ZY, Zhao ZJ, Chen LP, Yi YN, Li XR, He J.   +10 more
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Survey of childhood empyema in Asia: Implications for detecting the unmeasured burden of culture-negative bacterial disease [PDF]

BMC Infectious Diseases, 2008
Background Parapneumonic empyema continues to be a disease of significant morbidity and mortality among children despite recent advances in medical management. To date, only a limited number of studies have assessed the burden of empyema in Asia. Methods
A Jaffe, A Le Monnier, AK Baranwal, B Greenwood, Batmunkh Nyambat, BG Williams, C Aebi, C Finley, C Munoz-Almagro, C Ploton, CC Yin, CF Ho, Chen-Hsun Chiu, CL Byington, CL Byington, CL Byington, CS Roxburgh, D Cremonesini, DA Spencer, Dang Duc Anh, DN Nan, Dong Eun Yong, E Lahti, E Vuori-Holopainen, FJ McLaughlin, G Guyon, GJ Bechamps, H Bekri, H Sarihan, Hans L Bock, I Brook, I Rahman, I Rudan, ID Wexler, JD Nelson, JH Song, JK Todd, JK Tumwine, JM Porcel, JR Avansino, KD Schultz, KM Eastham, LM Cirino, Luis Jodar, M Fletcher, MF Arancibia, NH Kim, O Soysal, Paul E Kilgore, R Ulku, RL Gates, S Schiza, S Sonnappa, S Sonnappa, SA Engum, SA Sahn, T Chonmaitree, Timothy L Ng, TL Hadfield, UNICEF, V Peltola, W Hardie, William P Hausdorff, Xuzhuang Shen, YH Shen   +64 more
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Lung abscess predicts the surgical outcome in patients with pleural empyema [PDF]

Journal of Cardiothoracic Surgery, 2010
Objectives Most cases of pleural empyema are caused by pulmonary infections, which are usually combined with pneumonia or lung abscess. The mortality of patients with pleural empyema remains high (up to 20%).
A Jaffe, AM Kosloske, Chin-Yen Wu, Ching-Yuan Cheng, CR Kunz, D Bouros, F Gun, Heng-Chung Chen, Hsin-Yuan Fang, Hung-Che Huang, IE Petrakis, JJ Erasmus, LA Scherer, LF Schopf, M Russell-Taylor, MJ Hsieh, N Coote, N Pena Grinan, P Jess, P Patradoon-Ho, S Idell, S Schiza, SA Sahn, TF Molnar, V Agrenius, Yi-Chieh Lin   +25 more
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B. Bronchiseptica empyema necessitans, a case report. [PDF]

BMC Pulm Med
Background Empyema necessitans is an uncommon complication of an empyema, where pus in the pleural cavity extends into the chest wall. Both medical and surgical management are required.
Wray S, Tabliago NRA, Lueking R.
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Logistic regression analysis of clinical and computed tomography features of pulmonary abscesses and risk factors for pulmonary abscess-related empyema [PDF]

Clinics, 2019
OBJECTIVES: This study was conducted to investigate the risk factors for pulmonary abscess-related empyema by investigating the clinical characteristics and chest computed tomography imaging features of patients with pulmonary abscesses.
Cai, Xing-Dong, Huang, Yuanshun, Huang, Zhi-Hong, Li, Jinzhong, Liao, Xiaoying, Ma, Hong-Ming, Qiu, Shijie, Xu, Jingjing, Yang, Ying, Zhang, Miao   +9 more
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Mannose-binding lectin genotypes: lack of association with susceptibility to thoracic empyema. [PDF]

BMC Medical Genetics, 2010
BACKGROUND: The role of the innate immune protein mannose-binding lectin (MBL) in host defence against severe respiratory infection remains controversial.
Stephen J Chapman, Fredrik O Vannberg, Chiea C Khor, Anna Rautanen, Nicholas A Maskell, Christopher WH Davies, Catrin E Moore, Nicholas P Day, Derrick W Crook, Robert JO Davies, Adrian VS Hill, DP Eisen, SV Petersen, CG Mullighan, DC Kilpatrick, P Garred, JA Summerfield, S Roy, G Kronborg, ML Hibberd, A Koch, P Garred, NA Peterslund, O Neth, NA Maskell, SJ Chapman, SJ Chapman, NA Maskell, C Jurinke, H Endeman, M Dahl, MI Garcia-Laorden, DP Eisen, A Rantala   +33 more
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The role of high dose corticosteroid (methylperednisolone pulse therapy) in treatment of multi-organ involvement after bacterial pneumonia and pleural empyema; "case series". [PDF]

BMC Infect Dis
Parapneumonic effusions and empyema usually occur after bacterial pneumonia. Inflammation plays an essential role in the occurrence of pneumonia and can lead to an autoinflammatory condition.
Mirlohi SH, Tajfirooz S, Rouhi M.
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Blasto-ing through the chest wall: Empyema necessitans due to pulmonary blastomycosis. [PDF]

IDCases
Empyema necessitans is a rare complication of empyema and often associated with chronic, untreated infections. Here we report a case of a 28-year-old male who presented with cough, fever, pleuritic chest pain, and left chest wall mass who was found to ...
Gmehlin CG, Bergeron NP, Ramesh V, Akhtar H, Temesgen Z.   +4 more
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Therapeutic strategy and efficacy evaluation of chronic empyema after total pneumonectomy: individualized analysis of six patients. [PDF]

J Cardiothorac Surg
Background Chronic empyema after total pneumonectomy is a potentially fatal complication.The aim of the study is to explore the treatment strategy and clinical efficacy of chronic empyema after pneumonectomy.
Wang L, Lv Y, Zhao G, Li G, He Z, Huang Y, Zhao G.   +6 more
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