(n.) A collection of pus or purulent matter in any tissue or organ of the body, the result of a morbid process.
Example Sentences:
(1) One patient developed a subphrenic abscess postoperatively.
(2) In the case presented, overdistension of a jejunostomy catheter balloon led to intestinal obstruction and pressure necrosis (of the small bowel), with subsequent abscess formation leading to death from septicemia.
(3) Furthermore echography revealed a collateral subperiosteal edema and a moderate thickening of extraocular muscles and bone periostitis, a massive swelling of muscles and bone defects in subperiosteal abscesses as well as encapsulated abscesses of the orbit and a concomitant retrobulbar neuritis in orbital cellulitis.
(4) In three of these patients this was associated with the presence of a previously well established abscess cavity.
(5) All of the rabbits immunized with FCA developed sterile subcutaneous abscesses.
(6) 83 well documented cases of amoebic hepatic abscess, treated in the Philippines between 1967 and 1975, are presented with a view to showing the results of 3 different methods of management and comparing the diagnostic accuracy and overall mortality in 2 separate groups.
(7) A series of 241 patients with subphrenic abscess was analysed to seek reasons for the continuing mortality.
(8) Perinephric abscess is a rare condition; it may be acute, but can take a chronic and atypical course as a result of incomplete treatment with antibiotics.
(9) The authors discuss the results of the diagnosis and treatment of abscesses of the right hepatic lobe which were consequent upon ischemic necrosis; they were encountered after cholecystectomy in 0.15% of cases.
(10) We report a rare case of odontogenic abscess, detected while the patient was in the intensive care unit (ICU), which resulted in sepsis and the patient's death due to mediastinitis, skull osteomyelitis, and deep neck cellulitis.
(11) A review of 20 cases of pyogenic liver abscesses seen from 1971 through 1976 is presented.
(12) Therefore, two-dimensional echocardiographic findings in 22 patients with perivalvular abscess found at surgery or necropsy were compared with those in 24 patients without abscess in a retrospective but blinded study.
(13) A case of multiple, subcutaneous, neutrophilic abscesses due to T. rubrum in an immunosuppressed renal allograft recipient is described.
(14) A case of tricuspid valve endocarditis with spinal epidural abscess caused by Actinobacillus actinomycetemcomitans is reported in a 74-year-old male with an endocardial pacemaker.
(15) Once a liver abscess as a sequel to amebic dysentery was diagnosed and once a megaloplastic anemia with symptoms of a funicular myelopathy following a vitamin B12 deficiency syndrome.
(16) Two-thirds of the respiratory infections occurred in the first 3 postoperative months and were generally localized processes (focal pneumonitis, nodule(s), abscess, or empyema).
(17) Abscesses were pyogenic in four of the patients and amebic in one.
(18) Three patients recovered from their operations, and the other two, both with endocarditis, died postoperatively from causes unrelated to splenic abscess and splenectomy.
(19) As with abdominal abscess drainage, a preexisting fistula may be opacified only after several days of catheter drainage and cannot be predicted at the time of initial aspiration.
(20) Abdominal computed tomography (CT) scan showed a cystic suprarenal mass that was surgically explored and found to be a retroperitoneal Salmonella abscess.
Empyema
Definition:
(n.) A collection of blood, pus, or other fluid, in some cavity of the body, especially that of the pleura.
Example Sentences:
(1) Four patients died while maintained on PD; three deaths were due to complications of liver failure within the first 4 months of PD and the fourth was due to empyema after 4 years of PD.
(2) In a retrospective study 94 consecutive patients with verified empyema caused by pneumonia were admitted to the department of either pulmonary medicine or thoracic surgery.
(3) In four of the empyemas, PCD was used successfully after incomplete or unsuccessful chest tube drainage.
(4) Two-thirds of the respiratory infections occurred in the first 3 postoperative months and were generally localized processes (focal pneumonitis, nodule(s), abscess, or empyema).
(5) Foremost among the predisposing factors were measles (25%), empyema thoraxis (17%), and unconsciousness (13%).
(6) A rare case of pseudomonal empyema is reported in this clinical setting.
(7) In the treatment of 31 cases of acute infections of pediatric field including upper and lower airway infections, empyema, whooping cough, acute urinary tract infections and phlegmon, CMNX was administered intravenously either as one shot injection as drip infusion.
(8) Five patients were treated for recurrent, spontaneous pneumothoraces, for which blebectomies were done; three patients for pulmonary nodules, for which wedge resections were done; one patient for cryptogenic pleural effusion; one patient for debridement of an empyema cavity; one patient for traumatic bronchopleural fistula; and one patient with AIDS for interstitial lung disease.
(9) That is why the open abscess treatment will continue to be justified for all cases where cerebral abscesses occur in combination with subdural or epidural empyemas.
(10) A 40-year-old man was admitted to the hospital because of acute empyema localized in the right lower posterior pleural space.
(11) Pleural effusion or empyema was seen in 22 of 105 patients (21%) with acute disease and four of 31 (13%) with chronic disease.
(12) The overall postoperative mortality rate was similar in the 3 groups (respectively 8%, 8% and 5%), as well as the occurrence of empyema (respectively 4%, 3% and 5%).
(13) Acute cholecystitis was found at operation in 33 patients (28%), empyema in nine (7.6%), gangrene of the gallbladder in three (2.5%), and 24 patients (20.3%) were found to have common bile duct stones.
(14) Our procedure is indicated in patients for whom it is thought simple decortication will not lead to primary cure of empyema.
(15) Successful treatment depends to a large extent on adequate dependent drainage of the empyema space.
(16) The third patient died because of a toxically induced left cardiac decompensation with sepsis that could not be controlled by antibiotic drugs and multiple joint empyemas.
(17) Complications that were managed conservatively included splenic puncture, false aneurysm, laceration of the renal artery, arteriovenous fistula, hemorrhage requiring transfusion, pneumothorax-empyema, urinoma, septic shock and the hemolysis-hyponatremia-renal shutdown syndrome.
(18) Both the empyema thoracis and the ankle infection were due to Pseudomonas pseudomallel.
(19) A previously fit woman developed a sore throat followed by bilateral empyema and pericarditis due to haemophilus influenzae capsular type b.
(20) Of whom 5 died of bronchovascular fistulas, respiratory failure, empyema, or spontaneous pneumothorax.