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Evaluation of the effects of postoperative pleural empyema on survival rates of patients after pneumonectomy due to non-small cell lung cancer. [PDF]

open access: yesKardiochir Torakochirurgia Pol
Wójcik J   +6 more
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Parapneumonic Pleural Effusion and Empyema

open access: yesRespiration, 2008
At least 40% of all patients with pneumonia will have an associated pleural effusion, although a minority will require an intervention for a complicated parapneumonic effusion or empyema. All patients require medical management with antibiotics. Empyema and large or loculated effusions need to be formally drained, as well as parapneumonic effusions ...
Coenraad F N, Koegelenberg   +2 more
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EACTS expert consensus statement for surgical management of pleural empyema [PDF]

open access: yesEuropean Journal of Cardio-thoracic Surgery, 2015
Pleural infection is a frequent clinical condition. Prompt treatment has been shown to reduce hospital costs, morbidity and mortality. Recent advances in treatment have been variably implemented in clinical practice.
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Treatment of pleural empyema

Journal of Paediatrics and Child Health, 2000
Objective: To determine the clinical presentation and treatment strategies for children admitted with pleural empyema. Methodology: Retrospective review of medical and radiological records of 54 patients admitted with pleural empyema between January 1989 and April 1997.
P W, Chan   +3 more
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Pleural Empyema in Children

The Annals of Thoracic Surgery, 1970
n the late 1950’s a tremendous increase in the incidence of staphylococcal pneumonia and empyema occurred throughout many of the I pediatric centers in the country. This increase was thought to have been caused by the emergence of antibiotic-resistant strains of bacteria [3]. Several papers appeared in the literature reflecting this changing pattern [4,
Q R, Stiles   +4 more
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Cholelithoptysis and pleural empyema

The Annals of Thoracic Surgery, 1999
We report a case of delayed cholelithoptysis and pleural empyema caused by gallstone spillage at the time of laparoscopic cholecystecomy. An occult subphrenic abscess developed, and the patient became symptomatic only after trans-diaphragmatic penetration occurred. This resulted in expectoration of bile, gallstones, and pus.
P, Chopra, P, Killorn, R J, Mehran
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Rheumatoid arthritis increases the risk of pleural empyema

open access: yesOpen Medicine (Poland), 2020
Rheumatoid arthritis (RA) can lead to various pulmonary manifestations.
Kuang-Ming Liao, Te-Chun Shen
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Microbiology and Management of Pleural Empyema

2008
Empyema is apparently becoming more common, with pneumococcus being the most common pathogen detected in Europe and the USA. However, group A streptococcus and S. aureus pneumonia are individually more likely to progress to empyema. Serotype 1 pneumococcus is frequently implicated and the reasons for an apparent increase in incidence remain unclear ...
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Pasteurella multocida pleural empyema

The Journal of Pediatrics, 1978
RESPIRATOR Y INFECTIONS caused by Pasteurella multocida, specifically pneumonia and empyema, have been amply described in adults.>" This organism has been responsible for disease in extrapulmonary sites as well.': In children, however, infections with -P.
R I, Goldenberg   +4 more
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