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

Full MIST2 dosing of intrapleural enzyme therapy varies widely across hospitals and is associated with a lower risk for ...

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 ...

September 5, 2012 — Children with pleural empyema may have clinically important short-term outcomes but virtually no long-term complications, according to findings of a prospective observational study ...

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, ...

DURING the past fifteen years there has been a dramatic decline in the incidence of empyema. This decrease is related to the early treatment of pneumonia with antibiotics, frequently outside hospitals ...

Empyema is an exudative effusion (an excessive collection of protein-rich fluid) accompanied by pus in the pleural cavity. The pleural space Is also known as the pleural cavity or intrapleural space ...

Lung Therapeutics announced that it received Orphan Drug Designation for LTI-01, an injectable designed for the treatment of loculated pleural effusion. Lung Therapeutics, a pharmaceutical company ...

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 ...