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ERJ Open Research, 2023 Background The clinical impact of phenotyping empyema is poorly described. This study was designed to evaluate clinical characteristics and outcomes based on the two readily available parameters, pleural fluid culture status and macroscopic fluid ...
Ka Pang Chan +10 more
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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 +5 more
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Epidemiology of pleural empyema in English hospitals and the impact of influenza
European Respiratory Journal, 2020 Pleural empyema represents a significant healthcare burden due to extended hospital admissions and potential requirement for surgical intervention. This study aimed to assess changes in incidence and management of pleural empyema in England over the past
D. Arnold +10 more
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Comparing the Mean Platelet Volume and the Neutrophil-to-Lymphocyte Ratio in Children With Bacterial Pneumonia Associated With or Without Pleural Empyema [PDF]
مجله دانشگاه علوم پزشکی گیلان, 2023 Background Pneumonia is one of the severe infections in children, and empyema is one of its essential complications which causes more risk in affected children. Therefore, its early diagnosis is of great importance.
Houman Hashemian, Fina Sanati
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Journal of the American Medical Association, 1909 The following experience seems sufficiently remarkable to be worth reporting. The cases mentioned all occurred in my practice during the six months from Dec. 1, 1908, to June 1, 1909, in a rural community having a radius of less than four miles, with the center about seven miles northwest of Norborne, Mo.
E. H. MUSSON
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JAMA pediatrics, 2020 Importance Clinical guidelines recommend that children with pleural empyema be treated with chest tube insertion and intrapleural fibrinolytics. The addition of dornase alfa (DNase) has been reported to improve outcomes in adults but remains unproven in ...
M. Livingston +21 more
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Frontiers in Pharmacology, 2022 Empyema, a severe complication of pneumonia, trauma, and surgery is characterized by fibrinopurulent effusions and loculations that can result in lung restriction and resistance to drainage.
Sophia Karandashova +3 more
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BMC Infectious Diseases, 2008 Background Parapneumonic empyema continues to be a disease of significant morbidity and mortality among children despite recent advances in medical management. To date, only a limited number of studies have assessed the burden of empyema in Asia. Methods
Shen Xuzhuang +9 more
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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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