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Practical management of pleural empyema [PDF]
Monaldi Archives for Chest Disease, 2016 Empyema is defined as pus in the thoracic cavity due to pleural space infection and has a multifactorial underlying cause, although the majority of cases are post-bacterial pneumonia.
G.F. Tassi +3 more
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Pseudomonas aeruginosa pleural empyema in a preterm infant [PDF]
The Turkish Journal of Pediatrics, 2009 Pleural empyema is defined as the pyogenic infection of the pleural space with purulent effusion. Although it is frequently seen in children and therapy protocols have been developed for it, there are only a few reports about pleural empyema in ...
Hilal Ozkan +4 more
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Culture-Negative Pyogenic Liver Abscess Presenting as Lung Abscess and Empyema Through Transdiaphragmatic Spread. [PDF]
Respirol Case RepDyspnoea, cough and weight loss initially suggested thoracic malignancy. CT thorax–abdomen demonstrated a large right subcapsular pyogenic liver abscess with contiguous non‐fistulous transdiaphragmatic spread causing lung abscess and pleural empyema. Image‐guided liver abscess drainage and prolonged antimicrobial therapy led to sustained clinical and ...
Khor ZX +4 more
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Pleural empyema caused by Actinomyces turicensis
New Microbes and New Infections, 2021 Actinomyces turicensis was first identified in 1995. To the best of our knowledge, pleural empyema caused by A. turicensis has never been reported. In the case reported herein, a patient with pleural empyema was treated surgically, and in the bacterial ...
Apostolos C. Agrafiotis, Ines Lardinois
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Association Between Pneumoconiosis and Pleural Empyema: A Retrospective Cohort Study
DiagnosticsBackground: Pneumoconiosis is associated with chronic pulmonary and systemic complications, yet its relationship with pleural empyema remains insufficiently defined.
Khay-Seng Soh +3 more
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Gonococcal Peritonitis Complicated by Intraperitoneal Abscess and Pleural Empyema: A Case Report. [PDF]
Clin Case RepABSTRACT This report presents a unique case of gonococcal peritonitis complicated by an intraperitoneal abscess and pleural effusion in a 52‐year‐old woman with liver cirrhosis. No bacteriologically confirmed genital infection was identified, and the route of infection could not be established.
Mikkelsen HRE +3 more
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Epidemiology, Etiology and Prevention of Postpneumonectomy Pleural Empyema [PDF]
Folia Medica, 2019 Background: Pleural empyema after pneumonectomy still poses a serious postoperative complication. A broncho-pleural fistula is often detected. Despite various therapeutic options developed over the last five decades it remains a major surgical challenge ...
Danail B. Petrov +4 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%).
Wu Chin-Yen +5 more
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Medisur, 2005 Empyema is accumulation of puss in the cavity pleural, that can occupy part or all of it. The inflammatory fluid and the fibrin inside the pleural space is the result of an infection inside the pleural cavity that changes of watery liquid to suppurative collection inside the same one.
Crisanto Abad Celuria +5 more
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Clinical Infectious Diseases, 1996 Despite of extensive use of antibiotics for respiratory tract infections pleural empyema is still seen as a complication to pneumonia (7-10 cases/100.000 inhabitants pr. year). Pleural empyema as a complication to pulmonary surgery is reported in 2-3% of the patients even with use of antibiotic prophylaxis.
R E, Bryant, C J, Salmon
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