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Video-assisted thoracoscopic decortication for the management of late stage pleural empyema, is it feasible?

Annals of Thoracic Medicine, 2016
Background: Video-assisted thoracoscopic surgical decortication (VATSD) is widely applicable in fibrinopurulent Stage II empyema. While, more chronic thick walled Stage III empyema (organizing stage) needs conversion to open thoracotomy, and existing ...
Waseem M Hajjar, Iftikhar Ahmed, Sami A Al-Nassar, Rawan K Alsultan, Waad A Alwgait, Hanoof H Alkhalaf, Shekhar C Bisht   +6 more
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Empyema [PDF]

, 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 ...
Patane, Jonathan, Patane, Jonathan,, Jonathan Patane   +2 more
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Parapneumonic Effusion Versus Pulmonary Empyema in Children: Analysis of Risk Factors and Laboratory Predictors Through a Single Center Experience

Children
Background: Parapneumonic effusion is a common complication of community-acquired pneumonia and can range from a simple inflammatory transudate to an organized purulent collection, known as empyema.
Marta Improta, Francesca Morlino, Roberta Ragucci, Carolina D’Anna, Stefania Muzzica, Vincenzo Tipo, Antonietta Giannattasio, Marco Maglione   +7 more
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Successful Treatment With Daptomycin of MRSA Empyema Complicated by Right-Sided Loculated Pleural Effusion Refractory to Vancomycin

Clinical Medicine Insights: Case Reports, 2022
Empyema is a serious complication of pneumonia and has been reported to have a mortality rate of 8.7%. For methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) empyema, treatment includes drainage and specific antibiotics such as vancomycin and linezolid ...
Ava Torjani, Dylan Selbst, Joshua Hamsher, Sahaj Mujumdar, Andie Belkoff, Luis Taboada   +5 more
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Pleural Infection and Empyema

Tuberculosis and Respiratory Diseases, 2014
Increasing incidence of pleural infection has been reported worldwide in recent decades. The pathogens responsible for pleural infection are changing and differ from those in community acquired pneumonia. The main treatments for pleural infection are antibiotics and drainage of infected pleural fluid.
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Empiema [Empyema: An Update Approach]

Jurnal Respirasi, 2018
Empyema is a collection of exudative fluid in the pleural cavity associated with the occurrence of pulmonary infection. Empyema is often caused by complications of pneumonia but can also be caused by infection from elsewhere.
Helmia Hasan, Devi Ambarwati
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Surgical and Non-surgical Treatments in Pleural Empyema [PDF]

Objective: Increasing number of patients are developing complicated pleural infection. We aimed at revealing the differences of treatment modalities performed in patients with empyema.
Görkem VAYISOĞLU ŞAHİN, Erbaycu, Ahmet Emin, Ezgi ÇİMEN ÇELİK, Mutlu Onur GÜÇSAV, Özer ÖZDEMİR, Aksel, Nimet, Sami DENİZ, Ahmet ÜÇVET, Şahin, Görkem Vayısoğlu, Vayisoglu Sahin, Gorkem, Guldaval, Filiz, Deniz, Sami, Ahmet Emin ERBAYCU, Filiz GÜLDAVAL, Gucsav, Mutlu Onur, Nimet AKSEL, Ozdemir, Ozer, Çelik, Ezgi Çimen, Cimen Celik, Ezgi   +18 more
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Pleural Peels Tissue Culture plus Pleural Fluid Culture Help to Improve Culture Rate for Empyema

, 2022
Background: Empyema is known as a serious infection, and outcomes of empyema cases remain poor. Pleural fluid culture and blood culture have been reported to give unsatisfactory results.
Wei-Heng Hung, Bing-Yen Wang, Chang-Lun Huang, Ya-Fu Cheng, Ching-Yuan Cheng   +4 more
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Classical surgical treatment of acute pleural empyema

Український журнал клінічної хірургії
Objective. To determine the need for open surgical treatment in patients with acute pleural empyema with and without the use of video thoracoscopic rehabilitation interventions. Materials and methods.
V. V. Boyko, V. V. Tkachenko, A. L. Sochneva, V. V. Kritzak, P. I. Korzh, D. V. Minukhin, A. A. Serenko, D. O. Yevtushenko, V. I. Tkachenko   +8 more
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Bacterial Infection Elicits Heat Shock Protein 72 Release from Pleural Mesothelial Cells [PDF]

, 2013
Heat shock protein 70 (HSP70) has been implicated in infection-related processes and has been found in body fluids during infection. This study aimed to determine whether pleural mesothelial cells release HSP70 in response to bacterial infection in vitro
Porcel, JM, Bielsa, S, Brown, JS, della Vergiliana, JFV, Temple, SEL, Waterer, GW, Lee, YCG, Lansley, SM, Creaney, J   +8 more
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