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Pleural empyema

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, José Antonio Santana Santana, Abel Santana González-Chávez, Narciso Hernández Rodríguez, Leonardo Rodríguez Tapanes, Daniel Gutiérrez Hidalgo-Gato   +5 more
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Case Report: A case of tuberculous empyema causing rupture of the diaphragm was misdiagnosed as diaphragmatic hernia

Frontiers in Medicine
Tuberculous empyema (TE) is a chronic active infection caused by Mycobacterium tuberculosis that invades the pleural cavity. Initially, fluid accumulates in the pleural space, followed by an influx of neutrophils, which gradually develops into purulent ...
Tao Liu, Ting Yi Zhou, Guang Yu Li, Jing Feng Xu   +3 more
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A Rare Case of Empyema Developed after Transarterial Chemoembolization for Hepatocellular Carcinoma

대한영상의학회지, 2015
A 60-year-old male patient who previously underwent transarterial chemoembolization for recurrent hepatocellular carcinoma three months ago presented to the emergency department with pleural effusion and hemoptysis.
Young Keun Sur, Je Hwan Won, Hee-Jung Wang, Jinoo Kim   +3 more
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Use of intrapleural recombinant streptokinase in a pregnant woman with pleural empyema

Archivo Médico de Camagüey, 2018
Background: pneumonia complicates 0,78-2,7 per 1 000 pregnancies placing the mother and the fetus at risk. Empyema as a complication of pneumonia in a pregnant patient adds a high rate of morbidity and mortality to the mother and the fetus if one does ...
Miguel Emilio García Rodríguez, Yosdamy Martínez Pérez, Raúl Alberto Morales Rivero, Elizabeth Ramírez Reyes, Arian Benavides Márquez Benavides Márquez, Manuel Chávez Chacón   +5 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”

BMC Infectious Diseases
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.
Seyed Hossein Mirlohi, Sanaz Tajfirooz, Mitra Rouhi   +2 more
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COMPLEX TREATMENT OF ACUTE NONSPECIFIC PLEURAL EMPYEMA

Acta Biomedica Scientifica, 2012
In the article the results of complex treatment of acute pleural empyema in 123 patients are presented. In all cases we observed pleural empyema of nontraumatic character.
I. V. Nikolaychuk, A. N. Plekhanov
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Surgical treatment of acute empyema caused by methicillin-resistant <i>Staphylococcus aureus</i> in a patient with advanced non-small cell lung cancer: a case report. [PDF]

J Surg Case Rep
Motono N, Ishikawa M, Iwai S, Iijima Y, Uramoto H.   +4 more
europepmc   +1 more source

Malignancy Presenting As Recurrent Empyema: A Report of Two Cases and a Systematic Review. [PDF]

Cureus
Dharmawan T, Abdurrahman MF, Silaban YRH, Amirah S.   +3 more
europepmc   +1 more source

Thoracic Packing Failure due to Occult Diaphragmatic Injury after Empyema Surgery. [PDF]

Surg Case Rep
Tatsumi M, Oki T, Iizuka S, Nakamura T.
europepmc   +1 more source

EMPYEMA OF THE PLEURAL CAVITY

Annals of Surgery, 1923
openaire   +3 more sources