Journal article
Predictors of outcome and long-term survival in patients with pleural infection
- Abstract:
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In pleural infection, medical treatment failure (chest-tube drainage and antibiotics) requires surgery and increases mortality, it would be helpful to predict which patients will fail this approach. We examined clinical predictors in 85 consecutive patients with pleural infection receiving chest drainage and intrapleural fibrinolytics, and recorded age, length of history, antibiotic delay and choice, time to drainage, blood/pleural fluid (PF) bacteriology, PF pH, lactate dehydrogenase (LDH), ...
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- Journal:
- American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine
- Volume:
- 160
- Issue:
- 5 I
- Pages:
- 1682-1687
- Publication date:
- 1999-01-01
- ISSN:
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1073-449X
- Source identifiers:
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80009
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- Language:
- English
- Pubs id:
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pubs:80009
- UUID:
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uuid:ed69ca6f-cd85-4590-9574-009c53024c10
- Local pid:
- pubs:80009
- Deposit date:
- 2012-12-19
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- Copyright date:
- 1999
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