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Lung abscess predicts the surgical outcome in patients with pleural empyema [PDF]
Journal of Cardiothoracic Surgery, 2010 Objectives Most cases of pleural empyema are caused by pulmonary infections, which are usually combined with pneumonia or lung abscess. The mortality of patients with pleural empyema remains high (up to 20%).
Wu Chin-Yen +5 more
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South African Family Practice, 2007 Lung abscesses are most frequently caused by mouth anaerobes and may arise as a complication of aspiration pneumonia. Patients may present with a productive cough of foul smelling sputum with or without associated digital clubbing.
C. Koegelenberg
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Critical Care Explorations, 2021 The pulmonary vascular endothelialitis together with the high rate of distal pulmonary embolism or thrombosis extensively reported in critically ill coronavirus disease 2019 patients may impair antibiotic diffusion in the lung parenchyma of coronavirus ...
Victor Beaucoté, MD +5 more
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Respiratory Medicine Case Reports, 2021 Hypervirulent Klebsiella pneumoniae (hvKP) can cause lung abscess, serious infection, and has a high mortality. Drainage plays a key role in the treatment of lung abscess secondary to hvKP.
Yanzhu Chen +3 more
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Clinical characteristics of lung abscess in children: 15-year experience at two university hospitals [PDF]
Korean Journal of Pediatrics, 2015 PurposeInformation on the clinical features of lung abscess, which is uncommon in children, at hospitalizationis helpful to anticipate the disease course and management. There is no report concerning lung abscess in Korean children.
Mi Suk Choi +4 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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Lung abscess in childhood [PDF]
Thorax, 1968 Lung abscess continues to be a significant problem in childhood. Eighty-three cases of this condition have been reviewed. From the available data these have been found to fall into two groups which have been classified as primary and secondary.
P H, Mark, J A, Turner
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Intracranial fusarium fungal abscess in an immunocompetent patient: case report and review of the literature. [PDF]
, 2014 Introduction Fusarium spp is an omnipresent fungal species that may lead to fatal infections in immunocompromised populations. Spontaneous intracranial infection by Fusarium spp in immunocompetent individuals is exceedingly rare.
Cadden, Joseph +6 more
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Nephrobronchial fistula and lung abscess secondary to Xanthogranulomatous pyelonephritis
Lung India, 2015 There are multiple causes of lung abscess, but the differential rarely includes pyelonephritis as a primary cause leading to lung abscess resulting from the development of a nephrobronchial fistula.
Abhay Uppe +3 more
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Lung abscess caused by Streptococcus pneumoniae serotype 6B
Respiratory Medicine Case Reports, 2018 Lung abscess has been considered to be a rare complication of pneumococcal infection, and most cases are reported to be Streptococcus pneumoniae serotype 3.
Yuhei Ito +7 more
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