empyema thoracis
Case Report on Pleural Empyema Thoracis and Urinary Tract Infection Caused by Chromobacterium violaceum from Lagos, Nigeria
... 98 beats/min. He was tachypnoeic with a respiratory rate of 40/min and normal blood pressure of 110/70 mmHg. The patient had initially presented two months earlier with a history of unproductive cough that was of ...
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Decade Experience in Pleurectomy and Lung Decortications for Chronic Empyema Thoracis
... chronic empyema thoracis in a low income setting where pul- monary tuberculosis is rampant and neglected cases of empyema thoracis is not ...
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Clinical profile, complications, morbidity and outcome of empyema thoracis in children in a tertiary care centre
... with empyema thoracis admitted in our tertiary care hospital over a period of 12 months between October 2016 to September ...tuberculous empyema were excluded from the study. Empyema ...
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Fatal Empyema Thoracis Caused by Schizophyllum commune with Cross Reactive Cryptococcal Antigenemia
... Human infection by S. commune is uncommon, although re- cent reports suggested that the incidence might be underestimated because of difficulties encountered in laboratory identification (12). Since the first report of ...
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Etiology, outcome and risk factors for empyema thoracis in children aged 1 month – 12 years in a tertiary care centre
... empyema thoracis. Totally 90 consecutive patients diagnosed as empyema thoracis based on aspiration of pus from the pleural cavity were included in the study in the age group between 1 month ...
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Research Article Predictors of Outcome after Surgical Intervention of Empyema Thoracis in Pediatric Age Group
... traumatic empyema. The diagnostic criteria for empyema thoracis was presence of pleural effusion on clinical and radiological examination, and symptoms like fever, cough, dyspnea, tachypnea, ...
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A study of empyema thoracis and role of intrapleural streptokinase in its management
... of empyema thoracis and emerging role of fibrinolytic therapy in management of empyema thoracis at a late ...of empyema thoracis [18] and the same seems to be true for patients ...
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Risk factors associated with adverse outcome in empyema thoracis children aged 1 month-12 years in a tertiary care centre: a nested case control study
... Background: Empyema thoracis (ET) is serious complication of pneumonia in children, treatment outcome depends upon many risk ...factors. Empyema thoracis is a serious infection of the pleural ...
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Empyema thoracis: new insights into an old disease
... in empyema seem ...milleri empyema more commonly have comorbidities, such as underlying malignancy or diabetes mellitus [42, 43], and mortality with ...milleri empyema has been reported to be up to ...
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Management for Pediatric Pleural Empyema in Resource Poor Country: Is Chest Tube Drainage with Antiseptic Lavage Irrigation Better than Tube Thoracostomy Alone?
... Childreen empyema thoracis is an acute illness associated with significant morbidity, including persistent fever and prolonged hospital stay [1] ...Pleural empyema rarely complicates community ...
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Chronic Empyema: Aetiopathology and Management Challenges in the Developing World
... wide. Its pathological spectrum range from acute, through the sub-acute to chronic states. These three phases are also described as types I, II and III respectively. The acute and sub-acute forms are easily managed with ...
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Intrapleural therapy in management of complicated parapneumonic effusions and empyema
... Abstract: Empyema thoracis causes high mortality, and its incidence is increasing in both children and ...and empyema in adults and children recommend the use of intrapleural fibrinolysis in those ...
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A study on clinical profile and etiological agents of empyema in hospitalised children in Jaipur, India
... having empyema thoracis (pleural tap showing pus cells under microscopy or on gross examination purulent exudates) were included in the ...with Empyema secondary to post-surgical or post-traumatic ...
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The FABP4 gene polymorphism is associated with meat tenderness in three Chinese native sheep breeds
... ABSTRACT: The aim of this study was to assess the association of single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNP) of sheep fatty acid binding protein 4 (FABP4) gene with longissimus thoracis muscle (LT) meat quality traits ...
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Sinogenic Subdural Empyema in a Ten Year Old Boy with Sickle Cell Anemia
... Sinogenic subdural empyema in pediatric patients is a rare entity with a reported incidence of less than 2 pa- tients a year in many reference centres [1-4]. Even with early onset of broad-spectrum, intravenous ...
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Function of the epaxial muscles during trotting
... longissimus thoracis et lumborum appear to function in trotting mammals to (1) globally stabilize the spine in all planes of the body, and (2) dynamically stabilize the pelvis against forces produced by the ...
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The use of video image analysis for fat content estimation
... A very good agreement between these two meth- ods of determination of intramuscular fat content was achieved in the musculus longissimus lumborum et thoracis (Figure 2). The digital camera takes only surface ...
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Cost-effectiveness of Competing Strategies for the Treatment of Pediatric Empyema
... We constructed a decision tree (Fig 1) to evaluate the cost-effectiveness of competing strategies for the man- agement of pediatric empyema. We used a Bayesian tree approach to estimate the payoffs of each ...
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CORRELATIONS BETWEEN SUBDURAL EMPYEMA AND PARACLINICAL AS WELL AS CLINICAL PARAMETERS AMONGST URBAN MALAY PAEDIATRIC PATIENTS
... From this study, we conclude that there was no difference between craniotomy and burr hole and drainage. In the practical aspect, craniotomy should be used as the method of choice to treat PISDE because it is more cost ...
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Use of video image analysis for the evaluation of beef carcasses
... ferently bounded areas on the loin cross-section (Figures 2–4), after ANADA & SASAKI (1992) two areas bounded according to Figures 5 and 6 and with our own method that evaluated the area of the cross-section without ...
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