In many developing countries, thousands unknowingly suffer from a life-threatening condition—pus collection inside the chest around the lungs, medically known as empyema thoracis. Due to lack of ...

aDivision of Pulmonary, Critical Care and Sleep Medicine, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, NY, USA bDivision of Pulmonary, Critical Care and Sleep Medicine, Donald and Barbara Zucker ...

Conclusion We report increasing incidence and severity of empyema in a large tertiary hospital. One in four patients required a repeat intervention after CDF. Neither clinical variables at ...

The small number of patients who developed empyema, irregular use of prophylaxis for other associated injuries, antibiotic treatment for other conditions may have influenced our results. Perhaps in ...

Birmingham, UK 7 Consultant in Paediatric Respiratory Medicine, Freeman Hospital, Newcastle upon Tyne, UK 8 Consultant in Paediatric Respiratory Medicine, John Radcliffe Hospital, Oxford, UK “It seems ...

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