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Successful Treatment With Daptomycin of MRSA Empyema Complicated by Right-Sided Loculated Pleural Effusion Refractory to Vancomycin

Clinical Medicine Insights: Case Reports, 2022
Empyema is a serious complication of pneumonia and has been reported to have a mortality rate of 8.7%. For methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) empyema, treatment includes drainage and specific antibiotics such as vancomycin and linezolid ...
Ava Torjani, Dylan Selbst, Joshua Hamsher, Sahaj Mujumdar, Andie Belkoff, Luis Taboada   +5 more
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Pleural Infection and Empyema

Tuberculosis and Respiratory Diseases, 2014
Increasing incidence of pleural infection has been reported worldwide in recent decades. The pathogens responsible for pleural infection are changing and differ from those in community acquired pneumonia. The main treatments for pleural infection are antibiotics and drainage of infected pleural fluid.
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Empiema [Empyema: An Update Approach]

Jurnal Respirasi, 2018
Empyema is a collection of exudative fluid in the pleural cavity associated with the occurrence of pulmonary infection. Empyema is often caused by complications of pneumonia but can also be caused by infection from elsewhere.
Helmia Hasan, Devi Ambarwati
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Surgical and Non-surgical Treatments in Pleural Empyema [PDF]

Objective: Increasing number of patients are developing complicated pleural infection. We aimed at revealing the differences of treatment modalities performed in patients with empyema.
Görkem VAYISOĞLU ŞAHİN, Erbaycu, Ahmet Emin, Ezgi ÇİMEN ÇELİK, Mutlu Onur GÜÇSAV, Özer ÖZDEMİR, Aksel, Nimet, Sami DENİZ, Ahmet ÜÇVET, Şahin, Görkem Vayısoğlu, Vayisoglu Sahin, Gorkem, Guldaval, Filiz, Deniz, Sami, Ahmet Emin ERBAYCU, Filiz GÜLDAVAL, Gucsav, Mutlu Onur, Nimet AKSEL, Ozdemir, Ozer, Çelik, Ezgi Çimen, Cimen Celik, Ezgi   +18 more
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Pleural Peels Tissue Culture plus Pleural Fluid Culture Help to Improve Culture Rate for Empyema

, 2022
Background: Empyema is known as a serious infection, and outcomes of empyema cases remain poor. Pleural fluid culture and blood culture have been reported to give unsatisfactory results.
Wei-Heng Hung, Bing-Yen Wang, Chang-Lun Huang, Ya-Fu Cheng, Ching-Yuan Cheng   +4 more
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Classical surgical treatment of acute pleural empyema

Український журнал клінічної хірургії
Objective. To determine the need for open surgical treatment in patients with acute pleural empyema with and without the use of video thoracoscopic rehabilitation interventions. Materials and methods.
V. V. Boyko, V. V. Tkachenko, A. L. Sochneva, V. V. Kritzak, P. I. Korzh, D. V. Minukhin, A. A. Serenko, D. O. Yevtushenko, V. I. Tkachenko   +8 more
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Risk factors influencing postoperative pleural empyema in patients with pleural mesothelioma: a retrospective single-centre analysis. [PDF]

Eur J Cardiothorac Surg
OBJECTIVES Postoperative empyema is a severe, potentially lethal complication also present, but poorly studied in patients undergoing surgery for pleural mesothelioma.
Henschke P, Guglielmetti LC, Hillinger S, Monsch GM, Schneiter D, Opitz I, Lauk O.   +6 more
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Bacterial Infection Elicits Heat Shock Protein 72 Release from Pleural Mesothelial Cells [PDF]

, 2013
Heat shock protein 70 (HSP70) has been implicated in infection-related processes and has been found in body fluids during infection. This study aimed to determine whether pleural mesothelial cells release HSP70 in response to bacterial infection in vitro
Porcel, JM, Bielsa, S, Brown, JS, della Vergiliana, JFV, Temple, SEL, Waterer, GW, Lee, YCG, Lansley, SM, Creaney, J   +8 more
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Cytologic Findings in Esophageal Perforation: An Institutional Experience With Pleural Fluid Specimens

Diagnostic Cytopathology, Volume 54, Issue 6, Page 429-435, June 2026.
ABSTRACT Introduction Esophageal perforation (EP) is a rare but life‐threatening condition, and most cases are due to iatrogenic causes. The rest occur spontaneously, due to malignancies, or trauma. The mortality rates can approach 50%, and delayed diagnosis of EP exacerbates patient outcomes.
Mason Marshall, Samer Khader, Sigfred Lajara, Liron Pantanowitz   +3 more
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Empiema pleural na criança: análise de 120 casos. [PDF]

, 2001
Trabalho de Conclusão de Curso - Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina, Centro de Ciências da Saúde, Departamento de Pediatria, Curso de Medicina, Florianópolis ...
Oliveira, Robson Marcelo
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