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Pleural empyema is a
collection of pus in the
pleural cavity caused by microorganisms,
usually bacteria.
Often it
happens in the
context of a pneumonia...
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Subdural empyema is a form of
empyema – a
collection of pus, in the
subdural space.
Bacterial or
occasionally fungal infection of the
skull bones or air...
- (often
isoechogenic with
empyema).
Appropriate management includes chest tube
drainage (tube thoracostomy).
Treatment of
empyemas includes antibiotics, complete...
- Hospital. It was
originally intended to aid with
drainage of
tuberculous empyemas,
since at the time
there were no
effective medications to
treat tuberculosis...
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inhaling or
drinking the
foreign body. The
physicians also
thought that
empyemas could occur after parapneumonic infections or
pleurisy because the chest...
- by the ancients". He also
reported the
results of
surgical drainage of
empyemas.
Maimonides (1135–1204 AD) observed: "The
basic symptoms that
occur in...
- 1183/13993003.01918-2018. PMID 30523207.
Catheter drainage is used for
empyemas after chest-tube failure:
vanSonnenberg E,
Nakamoto SK,
Mueller PR, Casola...
- (hydrothorax),
blood (hemothorax), pus (pyothorax, more
commonly known as
pleural empyema),
chyle (chylothorax), or very
rarely urine (urinothorax) or **** (coprothorax)...
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localised between the base of his
right lung and
diaphragm in the form of an
empyema that
required drainage. For the next two
years his son
Edward took over...
