Ventilator-associated pneumonia (VAP) is defined as pneumonia occurring in a patient after intubation with an endotracheal tube or tracheostomy tube lasting for 48 hours or more. We describe a case of 75-year-old male who initially presented with pneumonia of the right basis with accompanying plevritis. The patient was intubated and his condition was complicated with a VAP infection while he de...

Lung abscess continues to be a significant problem in childhood. Eighty-three cases of this condition have been reviewed. From the available data these have been found to fall into two groups which have been classified as primary and secondary. Consideration of the aetiology has revealed that the commonly quoted predisposing features, namely tonsillectomy and foreign body aspiration, are no lon...

A 20-year-old man presented with a history of low-grade intermittent fever, cough with copious foul-smelling purulent sputum, recurrent massive haemoptysis and right-sided pleuritic chest pain for the preceeding two years. Before coming to hospital, he was diagnosed to have pulmonary tuberculosis on the basis ofhis clinical features and chest X-ray and had been receiving antituberculosis treatm...

We present a case of a lung abscess in a child 6-year-old admitted with a history of right hemithorax pain lasting for 15 days and the onset of mild fever in the last two days. Etiological research showed positivity of IgM antibodies to Mycoplasma pneumoniae after seven days of admission. The child has been successfully treated with antibiotic therapy, without the use of macrolides, for a durat...

INTRODUCTION Hypoglycemia is a cause of considerable morbidity. Although hypoglycemia has been documented in the setting of septic shock and has been associated with higher mortality, hypoglycemia in infection without sepsis has not been reported in the literature. CASE PRESENTATION A 72-year-old Japanese woman treated with high-dose glucocorticoids for autoimmune hemolytic anemia, as well as...

Methods A 51 year old female non-smoker, who had high blood pressure, was diagnosed with left lobe liver abscess, was suspicioned as carcinoma of pancreatic head. Definitive diagnosis was liver abscess and basal right lung node. Additional thoracic tests included a CT without contrast showing a node in the right lung inferior lobe, measuring 4x3 cm in diameter anterio-posteriorly and 4x5 cm in ...

The advent of laparoscopic surgery has created a set of peculiar morbidities. As the laparoscopic devices, also the type of retained foreign bodies has changed. We present a case of unusual, apparently isolated and recurrent lung abscess, pleural effusion and poorly evident subphrenic abscess after laparoscopic gastric bypass, due to a retained Endo-Catch bag. A 27-year-old obese female underwe...

Within the past decade, the medical regimen for lung abscess has included postural drainage, bronchoscopic aspiration and irrigation, artificial pneumothorax, intravenous injections of arsphenamine and guaiacol, rectal instillations of ether in oil, and the oral administration of potassium iodide and sulfonamides. The data reported by Rosenblatt (1940)’ indicate the hazards and ineffectiveness ...

OBJECTIVE To determine the incidence, clinical presentation, and outcome and confounding factors associated with the development of a brain abscess in solid organ transplant recipients. DESIGN A 14-year retrospective survey. SETTING A single, multiorgan, academic transplantation center. PATIENTS A total of 2380 liver transplant recipients, 1650 kidney transplant recipients, and 598 heart,...