| Autor: |
Ala Eldin H. Ahmed, Tariq E. Yacoub |
| Jazyk: |
angličtina |
| Rok vydání: |
2010 |
| Předmět: |
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| Zdroj: |
Clinical Medicine Insights: Circulatory, Respiratory and Pulmonary Medicine, Vol 4 (2010) |
| Druh dokumentu: |
article |
| ISSN: |
1179-5484 |
| DOI: |
10.4137/CCRPM.S5066 |
| Popis: |
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 the patients hospitalized with pneumonia and their presence cause a four-fold increase in mortality. Three stages in the natural course of empyema have long been described: the exudative, fibrinopurulent, and organizing phases. Clinically, PPE are classified as simple PPE, complicated PPE, and frank empyema. Simple PPE are transudates with a pH > 7.20 whereas complicated PPE are exudates with glucose level |
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