Background Pleural effusion is common in routine medical practice and can be due to many
different underlying diseases. Precise differential diagnostic categorization is essential, as …

Pleural Disease This review discusses the substantial advances that have been made in our
understanding of pleural biology and related pathophysiology, as well as in the …

Conservative management can be considered for the treatment of minimally symptomatic
(ie, no significant pain or breathlessness and no physiological compromise) or …

The American Association for Thoracic Surgery consensus guidelines for the management of
empyema - The Journal of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery Skip to Main Content …

HISTORICAL PERSPECTIVE, PATHOPHYSIOLOGY AND BACTERIOLOGY OF PLEURAL
INFECTION This section provides background information for reference, interest and to set …

Objective To investigate the etiology of pleural effusions (PE) in adults and the accuracy of
pleural fluid (PF) cytology and cultures in malignant and infectious PE, respectively. Patients …

Community acquired pneumonia remains a common cause of morbidity and mortality.
Usually, the causal organism is not identified and treatment remains empiric. Recent …

Background Although recent reports suggest that the incidence of parapneumonic empyema
has increased in several regions of the USA, national trends in disease burden are …

Background The optimal choice of chest tube size for the treatment of pleural infection is
unknown, with only small cohort studies reported describing the efficacy and adverse events …

Background Pleural infection is a common and severe disease with high morbidity and
mortality worldwide. The knowledge of pleural infection bacteriology remains incomplete, as …