Parapneumonic effusions are usually exudative in nature (Table 12-4). If thoracentesis of a pleural effusion indicates a transudative effusion in the setting of clinical pneumonia, this should ...

It is estimated that pleural effusion develops in more than 1.5 million patients each year in the United States, with the majority of cases resulting from congestive heart failure, pneumonia ...

When we think about etiology for complicated pneumonia, we also think potentially about some subtle differences between those organisms that can cause parapneumonic effusion or parapneumonic ...

A parapneumonic effusion describes the build-up of activated pleural fluid which is associated with a lung infection, predominantly pneumonia. Determining the underlying cause is facilitated by ...

A parapneumonic effusion is a type of pleural ... that arises as a result of a pneumonia, lung abscess, or bronchiectasis. "Long-term treatment with inhaled corticosteroids is associated with ...

They usually begin as a simple uncomplicated parapneumonic effusion as a result of a primary bacterial pneumonia, but can also be seen in association with Mycoplasma pneumonia and viral infections ...

Only one patient in the series had a parapneumonic pleural effusion. When complications of pneumonia do develop in the pregnant patient, they usually are a consequence of delayed diagnosis.

They also identified images they believed showed pneumonia in multiple parts of the lungs, and whether these patients had parapneumonic effusion, which is fluid build-up between the lungs and ...

A parapneumonic effusion is a type of pleural ... that arises as a result of a pneumonia, lung abscess, or bronchiectasis. "Long-term treatment with inhaled corticosteroids is associated with ...