empyema

The risk of empyema in children seems to be comparable to adults.

If the microorganisms themselves are present, the fluid collection is often called an empyema.

In severe cases of empyema, surgery may be needed.

If however an empyema develops additional intervention is required.

It is a form of empyema in the subdural space.

The incidence of empyema seems to be rising in the adult population as well, albeit at a slower rate.

He developed severe Pleural empyema, of which he died seven months later.

This condition (empyema) can be difficult to resolve and often requires extensive treatment with antibiotics.

This can also lead to empyema.

Occasionally, microorganisms will infect this fluid, causing an empyema.

This is called an empyema.

Frontal sinusitis and empyema can also result.

There is no readily available evidence on the route of administration and duration of antibiotics in patients with pleural empyema.

He was an early practitioner of medical percussion, a procedure he used in the diagnosis of empyema.

There were fears that the chronic empyema, which the thoracoplasty had been expected to cure, would recur on the other side.

Another study showed a case with a diagnosis of sympathetic empyema that was likely secondary to splenic abscess.

Authors noted that there were no known cases of sympathetic empyema caused by Streptococcus anginosus.

He completed revolutionary new work on surgical technique for the treatment of empyema, which had become important following the influenza pandemic of 1918.

Proven empyema (as defined by the "golden" criteria mentioned earlier) is an indication for prompt chest tube drainage.

However, the technique was not widely used until the influenza epidemic of 1917 to drain post-pneumonic empyema.

He got along well until about February-six months after it all started-and then he developed empyema in his left chest."

There were complications that she didn't understand - something to do with the fluid they kept draining off, something arising out of the chronic empyema.

Neutrophils are numerous in empyema.

In most cases, initial formation of empyema or hemothorax is the triggering factor for this inflammatory reaction.

Vesalius introduced the notion of induction of the extraction of empyema through surgical means.