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Clinical Infectious Diseases, 1996 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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Actinomyces odontolyticus lung abscess and pleural empyema. [PDF]
Arch Iran Med, 2022 Ruan H, Tao YM, Li SS.
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Changes in Etiology and Clinical Outcomes of Pleural empyema during the COVID-19 Pandemic
Microorganisms, 2023 Healthcare-seeking behavior changed during the COVID-19 pandemic and might alter the epidemiology of pleural empyema. In this study, the incidence, etiology and outcomes of patients admitted for pleural empyema in Hong Kong in the pre-COVID-19 (January ...
King Pui Florence Chan +5 more
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Diagnostic and Interventional Imaging, 2022 PURPOSE The purpose of this study was to evaluate the impact of virtual monoenergetic image (VMI) energies and iodine maps on the diagnosis of pleural-empyema with photon-counting-detector computed-tomography (PCD-CT). MATERIALS AND METHODS In this IRB-
Lisa Jungblut +7 more
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BMJ Open, 2022 Introduction Pleural empyema is a frequent disease with a high morbidity and mortality. Current standard treatment includes antibiotics and thoracic ultrasound (TUS)-guided pigtail drainage.
T. Christensen +18 more
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Risk of Pleural Empyema in Adult Patients With Asthma: A Nationwide Retrospective Cohort Study
Frontiers in Medicine, 2022 BackgroundRespiratory system infections commonly occur among individuals with asthma. However, whether asthma patients have a higher risk of pleural empyema development remains unclear.MethodsThis is a retrospective cohort study based on data from the ...
Wei-Chih Liao +10 more
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Identification of Microbiome Etiology Associated With Drug Resistance in Pleural Empyema
Frontiers in Cellular and Infection Microbiology, 2021 Identification of the offending organism and appropriate antimicrobial therapy are crucial for treating empyema. Diagnosis of empyema is largely obscured by the conventional bacterial cultivation and PCR process that has relatively low sensitivity ...
Zhaoyan Chen +12 more
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Pleural epithelioid hemangioendothelioma mimicking pleural empyema: A case report
Respiratory Medicine Case Reports, 2020 Malignant pleural effusion is an important and difficult differential diagnosis to pleural empyema. Epithelioid hemangioendothelioma is an uncommon vascular tumor, which typically occurs in liver, lung or bone.
Katrine Fjaellegaard +5 more
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Respiratory Medicine Case Reports, 2022 The incidence of empyema is increasing worldwide, which, coupled with the aging global population, makes the non-surgical management of pleural space infections increasingly important.
Ilana Roberts Krumm, Yaron B. Gesthalter
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The American journal of case reports, 2021 Case series Patients: Male, 29-year-old • Male, 42-year-old • Male, 26-year-old Final Diagnosis: Empyema Symptoms: Abdominal pain • dyspnea Medication: — Clinical Procedure: — Specialty: Surgery Objective: Rare coexistence of disease or pathology ...
Zeead M Alghamdi +3 more
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