Abstract

VALDES JIMENEZ, Jesús et al. Empiema pleural: Resultados del tratamiento en el Hospital Clinicoquirúrgico Docente "Comandante Manuel Fajardo. Rev Cubana cir [online]. 1999, vol.38, n.1, pp. 21-25. ISSN 1561-2945.

A prospective study of 15 patients with pleural empyema admitted at the "Comandante Manuel Fajardo" Clinical and Surgical Teaching Hospital from January, 1995, to December, 1997, was conducted. The acute form was observed in 3 patients and the chronic form in 10. The inflammatory neumopathy was the most frequent cause. Most of the patients were treated with combinations of lactam and amynoglycoside antibiotics, complemented with surgical therapeutics. In the acute form pleural lavage proved to be useful, whereas in the chronic form the most used procedure was decortication, followed by thoracic window and pulmonary resection. Only one patient died with advanced lung cancer

Keywords : EMPYEMA, PLEURAL [surgery]; EMPYEMA, PLEURAL [drug therapy]; ANTIBIOTICS, LACTAM [therapeutic use]; ANTIBIOTICS, AMINOGLYCOSIDE [therapeutic use].

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