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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 necessitans and a persistent air leak associated with rupture of an anaerobic lung abscess due to bacteroides [PDF]
, 2017 No abstract ...
Blyth, Kevin G., Sharma, Varun
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IDCases, 2022 Empyema necessitans is a rare empyema complication characterized by an extension of empyema out of the pleural space into the subcutaneous tissues of the chest wall.
Akane Tanaka +9 more
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Surgical treatment of a paraspinal abscess with osteomyelitis and spinal cord compression in a rabbit [PDF]
, 2017 CASE DESCRIPTION A 16-month-old neutered male Continental Giant rabbit (Lepus curpaeums) was referred for evaluation of a 7-day history of acute-onset, progressive, symmetric paraparesis.
Crawford, A H +4 more
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Empyema necessitans complicating a mild COVID‐19 infection in a young immunocompetent patient
Clinical Case Reports, 2023 Key Clinical Message COVID‐19 infection can be complicated by secondary bacterial infections including pneumonia and empyema resulting in worse outcomes.
Sierra Sullivan +3 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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Jurnal Respirasi, 2018 Background: Pleural effusion is the most common complication of pulmonary tuberculosis (TB). Some coexist with secondary infection could worsen clinical presentation as empyema.
Isnin Anang Marhana +1 more
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Pharmaceutics, 2023 The incidence of empyema is increasing and associated with a mortality rate of 20% in patients older than 65 years. Since 30% of patients with advanced empyema have contraindications to surgical treatment, novel, low-dose, pharmacological treatments are ...
Galina Florova +10 more
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Evaluation of complicated and uncomplicated parapneumonic effusion in children
The Turkish Journal of Pediatrics, 2016 Parapneumonic effusion (PPE) and empyema are most often seen as a complication of bacterial pneumonia and occasionally associated with atypical bacteria or viruses.
Zeynep Gökçe Gayretli-Aydın +6 more
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