Intrapleural enzyme therapy (IET) improves outcomes in adult inpatients with complicated parapneumonic pleural effusion or empyema.

A new study published in the Chest Journal showed that Full MIST2 dosing of intrapleural enzyme therapy (IET) was Linked to Better Outcomes but infrequently administered and showed ...

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Nine hospitals participated in the trial. The children were aged 1 month to 14 years, and all had community-acquired pneumonia with fever, cough, parenchymal infiltrate on x-ray, and pleural effusion.

To better manage empyema in the face of rising demand for treatment, the American Association for Thoracic Surgery (AATS) Guidelines Committee called for the formation of the Empyema Management ...

For the diagnosis of people with pleural effusion, an initial image-assisted Abrams needle biopsy (IA-ANPB) can match medical thoracoscopy (MT) in diagnostic accuracy in some cases, a small randomized ...

A previously healthy 17-year-old boy presented to his family physician with an increasingly productive cough and fever of 5 days’ duration. Based on a clinical diagnosis of atypical pneumonia, he was ...

Study says chest ultrasound can serve as a viable alternative to chest CT in the evaluation of pediatric patients with complicated pneumonia and parapneumonic effusion A study published in the ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . In China, of the number of adults with pleural effusions is high, and causes appear to differ by age and smoking ...

Novel non-invasive biomarkers for the precise diagnosis of malignancy in pleural effusion (PE) are needed. The aim of this study was to determine the diagnostic accuracy of calprotectin for predicting ...