Abstract

BEKELE JEMBERE, Bruk et al. Manejo escalonado en la supuración pleural. Rev Cubana Cir [online]. 2002, vol.41, n.3, pp. 141-146. ISSN 1561-2945.

A study of 36 patients with pleural empyema that were attended by the Group of Thoracic Surgery from Comandante Manuel Fajardo Teaching Hospital from January, 1995, to December, 2000, was conducted. Patients were classified into 3 evolutive stages:exudative, fibrinopurulent and organized, which were used as guides to determine the surgical procedure to be performed. The main cause was inflammatory pneumopathy followed by the postsurgical ones. The germs most commonly found in cultures were: staphylococcus, Gram-negative bacteria and streptococcus. The most used operations were: minimum pleurotomy with and without pleural lavage and pleural decortication in its different variants. 3 patients underwent some type of lung resection. In the fibrinopurulent stage, 50 % required early decortication with 100 % of healing. In the organized stage, the election treatment was classic (62.5 %) or late (18.8 %) decortication. The two dead patients were included in this stage. There were a few complications, and most of them were infectious. Surgical mortality rate was 5.6 %

Keywords : EMPYEMA, PLEURAL [surgery]; EMPYEMA, PLEURAL [complications]; INDICATORS OF MORBIDITY AND MORTALITY; MALE.

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