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Pleural empyema management: The impact of Video-assisted thoracoscopic surgery
Medicine Science, 2022 In recent years, Video-assisted Thoracoscopic Surgery (VATS) has caused many changes in thoracic surgery practice. This study aimed to analyze the results of early VATS surgery in patients with empyema.
Baris Hekimoglu, Muhammet Ali Beyoglu
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Usefulness of Thoracoscopic Debridement for Chronic Empyema after an Extrapleural Pneumonectomy [PDF]
, 2016 We present the case of a 65-year-old Japanese man diagnosed with chronic empyema (without a bronchopleural fistula) that occurred 7 months after he underwent an extrapleural pneumonectomy for right malignant pleural mesothelioma (MPM). Following thoracic
Miyoshi, Shinichiro +4 more
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Clinics, 2019 OBJECTIVES: This study was conducted to investigate the risk factors for pulmonary abscess-related empyema by investigating the clinical characteristics and chest computed tomography imaging features of patients with pulmonary abscesses.
Xing-Dong Cai +9 more
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Severe necrotizing pneumonia complicated by empyema in a neonate
Respiratory Medicine Case Reports, 2020 Necrotizing pneumonia is a severe complication of pneumonia, characterized by local destruction of lung tissue with development of multiple small cavities (abscesses) and may be associated with empyema. Empyema is an unusual complication in neonates with
Henry Zapata, Andrew Wahba
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A Simple Method for Differentiating Complicated Parapneumonic Effusion/Empyema from Parapneumonic Effusion Using the Split Pleura Sign and the Amount of Pleural Effusion on Thoracic CT. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2015 Pleural separation, the "split pleura" sign, has been reported in patients with empyema. However, the diagnostic yield of the split pleura sign for complicated parapneumonic effusion (CPPE)/empyema and its utility for differentiating CPPE/empyema from ...
Naoki Tsujimoto +9 more
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Dose de-escalation of intrapleural tissue plasminogen activator therapy for pleural infection. The alteplase dose assessment for Pleural infection Therapy project [PDF]
, 2017 Rationale: Intrapleural therapy with a combination of tissue plasminogen activator (tPA) 10 mg and DNase 5 mg administered twice daily has been shown in randomized and open-label studies to successfully manage over 90% of patients with pleural infection ...
Bintcliffe, Oliver +10 more
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Frontiers in MicrobiologyIntroductionRecent studies have proposed primary empyema and demonstrated a correlation between it and the microbial composition of the oral cavity.
Yun Huang +10 more
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JAMA: The Journal of the American Medical Association, 1904 In looking over the literature of the above-named subject I have again and again been impressed by the few references to the difference between a cystic empyema, so called, and a true empyema, the one being due to the encroachment of a dentinal or alveolar cyst to the antrum, the other a true infection of the antrum either from dental or nasal origin.
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The Clinical Features and Management of Empyema Caused by Streptococcus constellatus
Infection and Drug Resistance, 2022 Jinyan Lin,* Yu Zhang,* Chongxi Bao, Huasong Lu, Yun Zhong, Chuanfeng Huang, Qiuping Huang, Dezhen Wang, Jing Luo, Ke Wang, Jinliang Kong Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine Ward, Guangxi Medical University First Affiliated Hospital, Nanning ...
Lin J +10 more
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