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Pleural empyema caused by Actinomyces turicensis
Actinomyces turicensis was first identified in 1995. To the best of our knowledge, pleural empyema caused by A. turicensis has never been reported. In the case reported herein, a patient with pleural empyema was treated surgically, and in the bacterial ...
Apostolos C Agrafiotis, Inés Lardinois
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Practical management of pleural empyema
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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Association Between Pneumoconiosis and Pleural Empyema: A Retrospective Cohort Study [PDF]
Background: Pneumoconiosis is associated with chronic pulmonary and systemic complications, yet its relationship with pleural empyema remains insufficiently defined.
Khay-Seng Soh +3 more
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Pseudomonas aeruginosa pleural empyema in a preterm infant
Pleural empyema is defined as the pyogenic infection of the pleural space with purulent effusion. Although it is frequently seen in children and therapy protocols have been developed for it, there are only a few reports about pleural empyema in ...
Hilal Ozkan +4 more
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Epidemiology, Etiology and Prevention of Postpneumonectomy Pleural Empyema [PDF]
Background: Pleural empyema after pneumonectomy still poses a serious postoperative complication. A broncho-pleural fistula is often detected. Despite various therapeutic options developed over the last five decades it remains a major surgical challenge ...
Danail B. Petrov +4 more
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Lung abscess predicts the surgical outcome in patients with pleural empyema [PDF]
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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Empyema is accumulation of puss in the cavity pleural, that can occupy part or all of it. The inflammatory fluid and the fibrin inside the pleural space is the result of an infection inside the pleural cavity that changes of watery liquid to suppurative collection inside the same one.
Crisanto Abad Celuria +5 more
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The role of high dose corticosteroid (methylperednisolone pulse therapy) in treatment of multi-organ involvement after bacterial pneumonia and pleural empyema; “case series” [PDF]
Parapneumonic effusions and empyema usually occur after bacterial pneumonia. Inflammation plays an essential role in the occurrence of pneumonia and can lead to an autoinflammatory condition.
Seyed Hossein Mirlohi +2 more
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Despite of extensive use of antibiotics for respiratory tract infections pleural empyema is still seen as a complication to pneumonia (7-10 cases/100.000 inhabitants pr. year). Pleural empyema as a complication to pulmonary surgery is reported in 2-3% of the patients even with use of antibiotic prophylaxis.
R E, Bryant, C J, Salmon
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COMPLEX TREATMENT OF ACUTE NONSPECIFIC PLEURAL EMPYEMA
In the article the results of complex treatment of acute pleural empyema in 123 patients are presented. In all cases we observed pleural empyema of nontraumatic character.
I. V. Nikolaychuk, A. N. Plekhanov
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