Fungal Empyema Thoracis in Cancer Patients

Fungal empyema thoracis in cancer patients.

OBJECTIVES Fungal empyema thoracis (FET) is a rare life-threatening infection. We sought to describe the clinical characteristics of FET in a large academic cancer center. METHODS We conducted a retrospective chart review of all cancer patients who had a fungal isolate from the pleural fluid culture between 1/2005 and 8/2013. RESULTS A total of 106 fungal isolates were identified in 97 pati...

Fungal empyema thoracis: an emerging clinical entity.

STUDY OBJECTIVES To analyze the clinical spectra, pathogenesis, treatment, outcome, and prognostic factors of fungal empyema thoracis. DESIGN The medical records of patients with positive fungal cultures from pleural effusions were retrospectively analyzed. SETTING A university-based tertiary care hospital in Taipei, Taiwan. PATIENTS AND METHODS From January 1990 through December 1997, pa...

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.