The reason for this is unclear. A prospective study was undertaken to investigate the clinical features, aetiology, and outcome of cases of empyema and parapneumonic effusion presenting to a tertiary ...

vanderbilt.edu Background Although recent reports suggest that the incidence of parapneumonic empyema has increased in several regions of the USA, national trends in disease burden are unknown.

aDivision of Pulmonary, Critical Care and Sleep Medicine, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, NY, USA bDivision of Pulmonary, Critical Care and Sleep Medicine, Donald and Barbara Zucker ...

Objective: to analyze the associated factors with empyema in patients with post-traumatic retained hemothorax. Methods: prospective observational study. Data were collected in patients undergoing PD ...

and after the second drainage there was progression to subdural empyema. This patient died from septic shock. After one year of the surgery, we asked the families of the patients and the patients ...

Background Middle meningeal artery (MMA) embolization results in fewer treatment failures than surgical evacuation for chronic subdural hematomas (cSDHs). We compared the total 1-year hospital cost ...

From the Neurosurgical Service at the Boston City Hospital. First read at the Annual Meeting of the New England Surgical Society, September 30, 1933, at Boston, and subsequently at a meeting of ...

Shigeoka suffered an acute subdural hematoma, a life-threatening condition where blood accumulates between the brain and the brain's outer covering, in his loss to Taduran. The 25-year-old ...