NON-TUBERCULAR EMPYEMA THORACIS- A COMPARATIVE ANALYSIS OF GRAM POSITIVE AND GRAM NEGATIVE ORGANISM ASSOCIATED EMPYEMA

Pediatric Tubercular Empyema Thoracis: A Diagnostic Dilemma

Empyema thoracis is defined as the collection of pus in the pleural cavity. Mycobacterium tuberculosis as an etiological agent accounts for only 2% of the tuberculous pleurisy cases. History of contact and absence of Bacillus Calmette-Guerin(BCG) vaccination scar are usually seen. We are hereby reporting, a 4 year old male child with left sided tuberculous empyema who had been adequately immuni...

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...

Neonatal Empyema Thoracis: a case report

A term newborn was admitted to the neonatal intensive care unit immediately after the birth, with respiratory distress due to congenital pneumonia. With progression of respiratory symptoms, empyema thoracis was diagnosed due to the right massive purulent pleural effusion in chest X ray. Treatment was fulfilled by ventilator support and pus drainage by means of two chest tubes and appropriate an...

Treatment of empyema thoracis.

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...