Spontaneous Chest Wall Interstitial Emphysema Secondary to Chronic Empyema Thoracis

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.

Empyema thoracis due to Nocardia otitidiscaviarum.

We read with interest the article on pulmonary nocardiosis in southern Taiwan by Chen et al. In their study, eight of the 20 patients with pulmonary nocardiosis had pleural effusion and three of these patients had empyema thoraces. Among these three nocardial empyema cases, the authors reported a 61-year-old man with diabetes mellitus and chronic liver disease suffering from an acute course of ...

Video-assisted thoracoscopic sterilization for exacerbation of chronic empyema thoracis.

STUDY OBJECTIVE To investigate the efficacy of video-assisted thoracoscopic sterilization to treat patients with exacerbation of chronic empyema thoracis. DESIGN Case reports and literature review. SETTING Academic department of surgery. PATIENTS Two elderly, debilitated patients with worsening, chronic empyema thoracis as diagnosed by radiographs, CT, and thoracentesis. Both patients had...