Delayed tension pneumothorax complicating staphylococcal pneumonia.

A case of tension pneumothorax complicating staphylococcal pneumonia and empyema thoracis.

Pneumatoceles and pneumothoraces complicating staphylococcal pneumonia: treatment by synchronous independent lung ventilation.

A 54 year old man with a staphylococcal sepsis developed staphylococcal pneumonia complicated by multiple pneumatoceles and bilateral tension pneumothoraces caused by bronchopleural fistulae. Excessive enlargement of the right sided pneumatoceles and a tension pneumothorax not improved by drainage led to mediastinal shift and compression of the right lung. Reversal of the mediastinal shift and ...

The conservative treatment of the tension lesions of staphylococcal pneumonia in infancy.

Characteristic lesions of staphylococcal pneumonia in infancy are the tension cyst of lung and tension pyopneumothorax. The radiological appearances are often alarming and, at first sight, seem to indicate the necessity for urgent aspiration or drainage. The two obvious dangers are those of immediate suffocation (the French refer to the tension cysts as bulles suffocantes) and of gross pleural ...

Tension pneumothorax complicating autologous "blood patch" pleurodesis.

Autologous "blood patching" has been used successfully for the treatment of persistent air leak in patients with spontaneous secondary pneumothorax. The case history is presented of a 19 year old woman with cystic fibrosis who developed tension pneumothorax following this procedure, with rapid clinical deterioration until the obstruction was cleared. To avoid this potentially fatal complication...

Spontaneous pneumothorax complicating Legionnaires' disease.

Introduction Pneumothorax as a complication of pneumonia is more likely to occur with those infections associated with cavitation and abscess formation. Presumably rupture of a pneumatocele or abscess into the pleural space is the mechanism of production of the pneumothorax. Organisms most commonly associated with this condition include Mycobacterium tuberculosis (Meyerson, 1948) and Staphyloco...