Treatment of Acute Empyema Thoracis with Intramuscular and Intrapleural Penicillin

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...

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

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...

Intrapleural fibrinolytics in management of empyema thoracis.

STUDY OBJECTIVE To determine the success and complication rates of fibrinolytic therapy (FL) in the treatment of thoracic empyema. DESIGN AND PATIENTS Between December 1992 and November 1994, all patients referred with empyema thoracis (ET) were offered FL. FL consisted of streptokinase (275,000 +/- 170,000 IU) or urokinase (121,000 +/- 57,000 IU) daily for a mean of 6.2 +/- 2.1 days. SETTI...

Treatment of empyema thoracis.