Dr Arvind Kohli India has the dubitable honor of being ranked first in the world with regards to thoracic disease burden, ...

Without timely surgical intervention, the patient's condition would have turned fatal. He was losing weight and strength quickly. Doctors had to race against ...

Aims: To gather data on the clinical presentation of parapneumonic effusion and empyema and to examine the effect of different management strategies on short term outcomes. Methods: Retrospective case ...

Empyema (brain) Epilepsy Essential tremor Eye conditions Fainting Fits Fractured skull Friedreich’s ataxia Glaucoma Global amnesia Grand mal seizures Guillain-Barré syndrome Head injury Heart ...

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Pleural infection (parapneumonic effusion and empyema) has an annual incidence of 3.3 per 100 000 children. The incidence of childhood empyema may be increasing in the UK. If so, it is not clear ...

ABSTRACT Streptococcus constellatus, a member of the Streptococcus anginosus group, is a commensal bacterium that causes pyogenic infections, particularly abscesses. This report describes the case of ...

Background: The role of intrapleural fibrinolytic agents in the treatment of childhood empyema has not been established. A randomised double blind placebo controlled trial of intrapleural urokinase ...

Seven patients with subdural empyema were initially treated by antibiotics without surgery. Six have recovered without sequelae. One required delayed surgery and has recovered with epilepsy. The ...

Abstract Empyema is a well recognised complication of pneumonia. 1 We report a case of pulseless electrical activity (PEA) treated in the emergency department (ED) with intercostal tube drainage based ...

Smoking of crystalline cocaine, known as “crack” cocaine, has been associated with eosinophilic pneumonitis, but not with pleural effusions. We describe a patient with eosinophilic pneumonitis with an ...