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Parapneumonic Empyema Deaths during Past Century, Utah
Emerging Infectious Diseases, 2009 Bacterial pneumonia with empyema is a serious complication of influenza and commonly resulted in death during the 1918 influenza pandemic. We hypothesize that deaths caused by parapneumonic empyema are increasing in Utah once again despite advances in ...
Jeffrey M. Bender +5 more
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Clinical Medicine Insights: Circulatory, Respiratory and Pulmonary Medicine, 2010 Epmyema thoracis is associated with high mortality ranging between 6% to 24%. The incidence of empyema is increasing in both children and adults; the cause of this surge is unknown. Most cases of empyema complicate community- or hospital-acquired pneumonia but a proportion results from iatrogenic causes or develops without pneumonia.
Ala Eldin H. Ahmed, Tariq E. Yacoub
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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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Empyema thoracis: A clinical study
Annals of Thoracic Medicine, 2007 Background: Empyema thoracis is a disease that, despite centuries of study, still causes significant morbidity and mortality. Aim: The present study was undertaken to study the age-sex profile, symptomatology, microbiologic findings, etiology and the ...
Acharya Preetam, Shah Kusum
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Risk of empyema in patients with COPD
International Journal of COPD, 2018 Hsueh-Yi Lu,1 Kuang-Ming Liao2 1Department of Industrial Engineering and Management, National Yunlin University of Science and Technology, Yunlin, 2Department of Internal Medicine, Chi Mei Medical Center, Chiali, Taiwan Objective: Pneumonia is one of ...
Lu HY, Liao KM
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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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B. Bronchiseptica empyema necessitans, a case report
BMC Pulmonary MedicineBackground Empyema necessitans is an uncommon complication of an empyema, where pus in the pleural cavity extends into the chest wall. Both medical and surgical management are required.
Samantha Wray +2 more
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New England Journal of MedicineKey message Empyema necessitans should be suspected in any patient presenting with constitutional symptoms, pleural effusion, and a subcutaneous chest wall mass.
Adeoluwa, Ayoola, Kreshnik, Zejnullahu
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Empyema Necessitatis: A Rare Complication of Empyema
Cureus, 2023 Empyema necessitatis (EN) is an exceedingly rare complication of empyema. EN refers to the expansion and progression of an empyema beyond the thoracic cavity toward the skin wall. Herein, we present the case of a man with EN and detail his clinical course.
Gerlach, Gabriella +3 more
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