Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Most children with empyema can be treated with chest tube drainage, according to recent study findings published ...

This study of 346 consecutive patients confirms that VATS surgery can be performed with low morbidity and no mortality. The cumulative incidence of postoperative infections (including surgical site ...

Chest tube drainage is the first step in the management of complicated pleural effusions that have turned into empyema. In cases where adequate drainage cannot be provided or deloculation is required, ...

Researchers say that enzyme urokinase provides a better option as a treatment for empyema in children since it is 25 percent less costlier than another treatment video-assisted thoracoscopic surgery.

Pleural empyema is the condition of the pleural cavity when initially sterile pleural effusion has become infected. In the majority of cases, it is of parapneumonic origin. Parapneumonic effusions and ...

Table 1 summarizes the surgical infections observed and the analysis of differences between groups. Patients who developed one or more postoperative infections were 17/346 (4.9%); since five patients ...