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Case Reports in Pediatrics, 2015 Background. Empyema necessitans, a rare complication of pleural effusion, could result in significant morbidity and mortality in children. It is characterized by the dissection of pus through the soft tissues and the skin of the chest wall. Mycobacterium
M. S. Yauba +4 more
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Medicine, 2019 Pleural effusions are a common medical problem not only for pulmonologists but also for general physicians, often needing thoracentesis for a definite diagnosis. However, thoracentesis cannot always reveal malignant cells or microbiological evidence.
T. Saraya +5 more
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Tissue plasminogen activator for a rare case of neonatal empyema
Journal of Pediatric Surgery Case Reports, 2020 Empyema is an infection of the pleural space, often secondary to pneumonia. Although frequently encountered in pediatric surgical practice, it is rarely encountered in neonatal patients, and little data exists to guide treatment of neonatal empyema.
A.B. Montgomery +3 more
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Pharmacology Research &Perspectives, Volume 13, Issue 6, December 2025.ABSTRACT Polymyxin B (PMB), a last‐resort antibiotic for multidrug‐resistant Gram‐negative infections, carries significant neurotoxicity risks that remain underrecognized in clinical practice. Here, we present a case of life‐threatening diaphragmatic paralysis induced by PMB in a patient with extensive neck and mediastinal infections caused by ...
Yunli Zhang +5 more
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Respirology Case Reports, Volume 13, Issue 12, December 2025.This case series suggests that sequential, non‐mixed autologous blood plus minocycline pleurodesis is a feasible option for intractable secondary spontaneous pneumothorax (SSP) in high‐risk, nonsurgical patients, many of whom had ILD and/or severe COPD.
Eitetsu Koh, Yasuo Sekine
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Analysis of Cytokine Levers in Pleural Effusions of Tuberculous Pleurisy and Tuberculous Empyema
Mediators of Inflammation, 2016 The aim is to examine whether the interleukin-1β (IL-1β), IL-2, IL-6, tumor necrosis factor-α (TNF-α), plasminogen activator inhibitor type-1 (PAI-1), and tissue plasminogen activator (t-PA) levels were different in pleural effusions of tuberculous ...
Lei Yang +5 more
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Pleural empyema in a patient with a perinephric abscess and diaphragmatic defect
Respirology Case Reports, 2019 Pleural infection as a complication of ascending urological infection is rare, and the mechanism often unclear. We report a complicated case of pleural infection and perinephric abscess in a patient who presented with a large right‐sided pleural effusion.
Pei Sze Carmen Tan +4 more
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Respiratory Medicine Case Reports, 2018 Congenital pulmonary airway malformations (CPAMs) are a heterogeneous group of hamartomatous cystic and noncystic lung lesions that result from early airway maldevelopment. Usually they are distinguished according to Stocker's classification in type 0, 1,
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SAGE Open Medical Case Reports, 2021 This case report is a chronic calcified pleural empyema in a patient who suffered a closed chest trauma 30 years ago. The first goal is to demonstrate how the closed chest trauma caused a bronchopleural fistula of the calcified pleural empyema, since the
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The Pediatric Infectious Disease Journal, 2018 Empyema is a complication of community-acquired pneumonia. We conducted a retrospective analysis of empyema patients discharged from 1996 to 2016, examining culture results according to timing of antibiotic administration. Blood culture decreased from 45%
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