Thoracic empyema: a 12-year study from a UK tertiary cardiothoracic referral centre

Empyema is an increasingly frequent clinical problem worldwide, and has substantial morbidity and mortality. Our objectives were to identify the clinical, surgical and microbiological features, and management outcomes, of empyema. A retrospective observational study over 12 years (1999-2010) was car...

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Veröffentlicht in:	PloS one 2012-01, Vol.7 (1), p.e30074-e30074
Hauptverfasser:	Marks, Daniel J B, Fisk, Marie D, Koo, Chieh Y, Pavlou, Menelaos, Peck, Lorraine, Lee, Simon F, Lawrence, David, Macrae, M Bruce, Wilson, A Peter R, Brown, Jeremy S, Miller, Robert F, Zumla, Alimuddin I
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Sprache:	eng
Schlagworte:	Adult Aged Albumin Alkaline phosphatase Anaerobes Antibiotics Biology Biomarkers Blood Cardiology Cardiovascular disease Coronary vessels Cross infection Demographics Demography Diagnosis Empyema Empyema, Pleural - epidemiology Empyema, Pleural - microbiology Empyema, Pleural - mortality Empyema, Pleural - surgery Fatalities Female Health aspects Heart Heart failure Hemoglobin Hemoglobins Hospitals Humans Inflammatory bowel disease Male Malnutrition Medical diagnosis Medicine Microbiology Middle Aged Morbidity Mortality Patients Phosphatases Rheumatoid arthritis Risk analysis Risk factors Serum albumin Statistical analysis Streptococcus infections Studies Surgery Thoracic Surgery, Video-Assisted Thorax Tuberculosis
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