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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 ...
Jonathan Patane
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THE TREATMENT OF EMPYEMA [PDF]
Annals of Surgery, 1919 n ...
John A. Hartwell
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Assessing the impact of the 13 valent pneumococcal vaccine on childhood empyema in Australia
Thorax, 2021 Background Empyema is a serious complication of pneumonia frequently caused by Streptococcus pneumoniae (SP). We assessed the impact of the 13-valent pneumococcal conjugate vaccine (13vPCV) on childhood pneumonia and empyema after inclusion in the ...
R. Strachan +20 more
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Candida Empyema Thoracis at Two Academic Medical Centers: New Insights Into Treatment and Outcomes
Open Forum Infectious Diseases, 2021 Background Candida empyema thoracis (pleural empyema) is an uncommon manifestation of invasive candidiasis, for which optimal treatment is unknown. Methods This is a retrospective study of patients with Candida empyema at 2 academic medical centers from ...
S. S. Senger +5 more
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The outcomes of thoracoscopic decortication between fungal empyema and bacterial empyema
BMC Infectious Diseases, 2023 Background Fungal empyema is an uncommon disease and is associated with a high mortality rate. Surgical intervention is suggested in stage II and III empyema.
Ya-Fu Cheng +6 more
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Identification of Microbiome Etiology Associated With Drug Resistance in Pleural Empyema
Frontiers in Cellular and Infection Microbiology, 2021 Identification of the offending organism and appropriate antimicrobial therapy are crucial for treating empyema. Diagnosis of empyema is largely obscured by the conventional bacterial cultivation and PCR process that has relatively low sensitivity ...
Zhaoyan Chen +12 more
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CONSERVATIVE TREATMENT OF SUBDURAL EMPYEMA: A COMPLICATION OF ODONTOGENIC SINUSITIS [PDF]
Romanian Journal of Infectious Diseases, 2018 Odontogenic infections are predisposing factors for 10% of maxillary sinusitis, rarely complicating with meningitis and subdural empyema. Most empyema associated with dental infections have polymicrobial etiology. Standard treatment for subdural empyema
Manuela Arbune +3 more
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