Empyema thoracis complicating acute chest syndrome

Empyema Thoracis

Epmyema thoracis is associated with high mortality ranging between 6% to 24%. The incidence of empyema is increasing in both children and adults; the cause of this surge is unknown. Most cases of empyema complicate community- or hospital-acquired pneumonia but a proportion results from iatrogenic causes or develops without pneumonia. Parapneumonic effusions (PPE) develop in about one half of th...

Empyema thoracis: management outcome.

BACKGROUND Empyema thoracis results from postpneumonic effusion of bacterial origin or trauma. If untreated it may convert to fibro-purulent or an organising stage. METHODS This study was conducted at cardiothoracic unit of Ayub Teaching Hospital Abbottabad from Jan 2008 to Aug 2009. Patients with diagnosis of empyema thoracic were studied. Their clinical features and investigations were reco...

Treatment of empyema thoracis.

Treatment of Acute Empyema Thoracis with Intramuscular and Intrapleural

For chronic fissure in ano, surgical excision and suture has been practised with surprisingly good results. A stay suture is inserted at the proximal and distal extremities of the fissure which is made prominent by tension on each stay. The fissure is then easily excised with the subjacent portion of the subcutaneous external sphincter. Two or three figure-of-eight sutures of fine nylon are pla...

Treatment of acute empyema thoracis with intramuscular and intrapleural penicillin.

For chronic fissure in ano, surgical excision and suture has been practised with surprisingly good results. A stay suture is inserted at the proximal and distal extremities of the fissure which is made prominent by tension on each stay. The fissure is then easily excised with the subjacent portion of the subcutaneous external sphincter. Two or three figure-of-eight sutures of fine nylon are pla...