An unusual cause of empyema thoracis

An unusual cause of empyema thoracis.

The second observation was the error made in calculating the positive predictive value. By deÞ nition, positive predictive value is “the probability that a person actually has the disease given that he or she tests positive”.[2] In the paper under discussion, the disease was represented by VZV ELISA positives (as the gold standard) and the test was represented by “recalled history of chicken po...

Self-insertion of needles: An unusual cause of empyema thoracis and its thoracoscopic management

Intrapulmonary aberrant needles are rare in clinical practice. Most common cause till date is the intra-thoracic migration of pins and wires commonly used in treatment of fractures and dislocations of upper extremity. Some cases of traumatic intra-thoracic insertion of needles have also been reported. We report a patient of empyema thoracis due to unusual habit of self-insertion of needles in h...

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...

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...