Her body had filled with fluid due to kidney failure and gave her empyema of the lungs. She suffered a heart attack at the beginning of last year which required a triple bypass in December 2023.

Therefore, the goal is to demonstrate clinical improvement. If pneumonia does not clear fully, patients can develop an empyema, which would require surgical intervention and an extended period of ...

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However, if WCC is not trending downwards, further investigations may be needed to identify if there is another source of infection that has not been removed, such as an abscess or empyema. Similarly, ...

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We present a patient with a post-pneumonectomy empyema refractory to surgical debridement and systemic antibiotics. The patient initially presented with a bronchopleural fistula and pneumothorax ...

Seven patients developed an empyema; five were in the group that required immediate surgery and in the other two infection occurred in a clotted haemothorax. Early repair of the associated visceral ...

A bronchopleural fistula (BPF), also known as a bronchopleural air leak, is an abnormal passageway that develops between the large airways in the lungs (the bronchi) and the space between the ...

Hospital-acquired hyponatremia can be lethal. There have been multiple reports of death or permanent neurological impairment in both children and adults. The main factor contributing to the ...

Mechanism and management of acute femoral artery occlusion caused by suture-mediated vascular closure device following neurointervention (15 October, 2024) ...