Empyema - Symptoms, diagnosis and treatment | BMJ Best Practice
2024年3月7日 · Empyema is defined as the presence of pus in the pleural space. Risk factors include pneumonia, iatrogenic intervention in the pleural space, diabetes, and alcohol abuse. In patients with symptoms and signs of infection and a significant pleural effusion, thoracentesis (pleural aspiration) must be performed urgently.
Legionella infection - BMJ Best Practice
2024年5月10日 · Definitive diagnosis is made with a positive laboratory test. First-line treatment is with a fluoroquinolone or a newer-generation macrolide. Complications are the same as those for pneumonia and include respiratory failure, parapneumonic effusion, …
Lung abscess - Symptoms, diagnosis and treatment - BMJ Best …
2023年12月12日 · Communication of such cavities with the bronchial tree results in a cough productive of purulent sputum and the presence of air-fluid levels on chest x-ray. [3] Mansharamani NG, Koziel H. Chronic lung sepsis: lung abscess, bronchiectasis, and empyema.
Community-acquired pneumonia in children - BMJ Best Practice
2024年10月29日 · Complicated pneumonia is defined as pulmonary parenchymal infection that is complicated by parapneumonic effusions, multilobar disease, abscesses or cavities, necrotizing pneumonia, empyema, or pneumothorax of bronchopleural fistula; or pneumonia that is a complication of bacteremic disease that includes other sites of infection. [1]
Assessment of clubbing - BMJ Best Practice
2024年6月25日 · The webpage provides a comprehensive guide on the assessment and differential diagnosis of clubbing symptoms.
Evaluation of persistent pulmonary infiltrate - BMJ Best Practice
2024年6月25日 · Persistent pulmonary infiltrate results when a substance denser than air (e.g., pus, edema, blood, surfactant, protein, or cells) lingers within the lung parenchyma. Nonresolving and slowly resolving pneumonias are the most common broad categories of persistent pulmonary infiltrate. Persistence ...
Aspiration pneumonia - BMJ Best Practice
2024年10月22日 · Aspiration pneumonia is diagnosed based on clinical signs or symptoms of pneumonia in a person with a history or risk factors for aspiration.Sputum or tracheal Gram stain reveals mixed flora.Infection usually involves the dependent lung lobe.Complications of disease include lung abscess and empyema.
Aspiration pneumonia - Symptoms, diagnosis and treatment | BMJ …
2022年11月8日 · Aspiration pneumonia is diagnosed based on clinical signs or symptoms of pneumonia in a person with a history or risk factors for aspiration. Sputum or tracheal Gram stain reveals mixed flora. Infection usually involves the dependent lung lobe. Complications of disease include lung abscess and empyema.
Pleural effusion - Symptoms, diagnosis and treatment - BMJ Best …
2024年8月6日 · Pleural effusion presents with breathlessness, cough, and pleuritic chest pain. Diagnosis involves chest x-ray and ultrasound. Treatment depends on the underlying cause.
Aspiration pneumonia - Symptoms, diagnosis and treatment | BMJ …
2023年8月24日 · Chest x-ray will show a new infiltrate; infection usually involves the dependent lung lobe. Sputum culture and Gram stain are usually inconclusive but may identify the infecting organism. Complications of disease include lung abscess and empyema. Aspiration pneumonia predominantly occurs in older adults.