Identification of Cardiovascular Abnormalities in Children With Empyema Thoracis by Two-dimensional and Doppler Echocardiography

To our knowledge, echocardiographic assessment of children with empyema has not been reported previously in the literature. Two-dimensional and Doppler echocardiography were performed in 47 children with acute (n = 23) and chronic (n = 24) empyema and 34 control subjects. Echocardiography demonstrat...

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Veröffentlicht in:	Chest 1993-08, Vol.104 (2), p.405-410
Hauptverfasser:	Kishk, Yehia T, Abou-Elmagd, Aly, Abdel-Wahab, Aly M.
Format:	Artikel
Sprache:	eng
Schlagworte:	Acute Disease Biological and medical sciences Cardiomegaly - diagnosis Cardiomegaly - etiology Cardiovascular system Child, Preschool Chronic Disease Echocardiography Echocardiography, Doppler Empyema, Pleural - complications Female Heart Diseases - diagnostic imaging Heart Diseases - etiology Humans Hypertension, Pulmonary - diagnosis Hypertension, Pulmonary - etiology Investigative techniques, diagnostic techniques (general aspects) Male Medical sciences Tricuspid Valve Insufficiency - diagnosis Tricuspid Valve Insufficiency - etiology Ultrasonic investigative techniques
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Zusammenfassung:	To our knowledge, echocardiographic assessment of children with empyema has not been reported previously in the literature. Two-dimensional and Doppler echocardiography were performed in 47 children with acute (n = 23) and chronic (n = 24) empyema and 34 control subjects. Echocardiography demonstrated pericardial effusion in 11 of 47 patients (23 percent). Those with acute empyema had significantly thicker pericardium (p
ISSN:	0012-3692 1931-3543
DOI:	10.1378/chest.104.2.405