(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.
Phlegmon
Definition:
(n.) Purulent inflammation of the cellular or areolar tissue.
Example Sentences:
(1) Failues of PAFD occurred primarily with the presence of phlegmonous collections and cavities with fistulous connection to bowel.
(2) The term phlegmonous enterocolitis or gastritis defines an acute inflammatory process with purulent or nonpurulent character, that selectively damages the gastric, small and large intestines submucosal layer.
(3) In one patient the organism was repeatedly isolated from a phlegmone developing in the depth of a varicose leg ulcer.
(4) The results of prophylactic administration of Klion in phlegmonous appendicitis were excellent.
(5) 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.
(6) Two original operations are proposed: ablation of the great toe with a preliminary transection of the tendon of the long flexor and radical operation of the deep phlegmon of the foot with the dissection of plantar aponeurosis and short flexors of the toes.
(7) Serial CT should be done in patients demonstrating phlegmonous extrapancreatic spread.
(8) The histological work-up of the surgical specimen revealed an acute phlegmonous appendicitis, and also a welldeveloped cryptosporidiosis, which was confirmed by electron-microscopic examination.
(9) For its clinical importance it is to be emphasized that 23% of all sows showed symptoms of chronic mastitis (phlegmon, abscess, granuloma, fibrosis).
(10) A case of right pyelonephritis with hydronephrosis complicating relapsing acute pancreatitis and right pararenal phlegmon formation is presented.
(11) Comparison of 3 methods for the assessment of the severity of intoxication in patients with maxillofacial phlegmons, i.e.
(12) An appendicitis echo was obtained in 100% of phlegmonous and gangrenous appendicitis cases in which emergency surgery was indicated, but in only 32% of catarrhal appendicitis cases in which conservative therapy was generally indicated.
(13) The most frequent complications of amebic colitis are perforation and phlegmon, which result in peritonitis.
(14) Some indices of humoral and cellular immunity were studied in 98 patients with diabetes mellitus (DM), complicated with pyoseptic infection (phlegmon, abscess, gangrene of different sites, hematogenic osteomyelitis, furunculosis, sepsis).
(15) In most patients with phlegmonous cholecystitis specific antibodies accumulated in the blood during the disease irrespective of one another, while the intensity of their increase was determined by the duration of treatment and the patients' age.
(16) Eight cases of lateral ventral hernia, or the so-called hernia of the line of Spiegel, included 2 serious cases complicated by a pyostercoral phlegmon.
(17) Probable presence of phlegmonous appendicitis is small if 48 hours have passed after initiation of troubles.
(18) In the subsequent part they focus attention on possible differentiation of acute osteomyelitis from inflammations of soft tissues-phlegmons.
(19) Diagnosis of phlegmonous gastritis was made by laparotomy.
(20) The efficacy of treatment of 98 patients suffering from maxillofacial odontogenic phlegmons was assessed from the results of clinical, laboratory, immunologic, biophotometric, and morphologic investigations, and compared to the results of traditional treatment of 132 patients with the same conditions.