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 ...

The reason for this is unclear. A prospective study was undertaken to investigate the clinical features, aetiology, and outcome of cases of empyema and parapneumonic effusion presenting to a tertiary ...

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vanderbilt.edu Background Although recent reports suggest that the incidence of parapneumonic empyema has increased in several regions of the USA, national trends in disease burden are unknown.

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 ...

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 ...

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