Pneumology - Case Reports
22 June 2016
Vol. 81 No. 1-2 (2015): Pulmonary series
Bilateral empyema treated by sequential pleuroscopy
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Bilateral empyema associated to infectious pericarditis is an extremely rare, yet life-threatening condition. Pleuroscopy-medical thoracoscopy has proved its efficacy in series of patients with empyema. Yet, all reported cases treated by this technique, concerned patients with pleural infection located to a single hemithorax. We present the case of a 71-year-old man with bilateral empyema treated successfully by sequential pleuroscopy, associated to infectious pericarditis.
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“Bilateral Empyema Treated by Sequential Pleuroscopy”. 2016. Monaldi Archives for Chest Disease 81 (1-2). https://doi.org/10.4081/monaldi.2015.735.