A Rare Case of Spontaneous Empyema by Clostridium perfringens

Empyema caused by clostridial infections is rare especially in the absence of invasive thoracic procedures. We present the case of an 81-year-old man without a history of preceding trauma who presented with shortness of breath and nonproductive cough and grew Clostridium perfringens only in the pleu...

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Autores principales: Basnet, Sijan, Mir, Izza, Mohanty, Elan, Dhital, Rashmi, Tharu, Biswaraj, Ram Poudel, Dilli
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Hindawi 2018
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5817267/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29535878
http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2018/2791349
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author Basnet, Sijan
Mir, Izza
Mohanty, Elan
Dhital, Rashmi
Tharu, Biswaraj
Ram Poudel, Dilli
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description Empyema caused by clostridial infections is rare especially in the absence of invasive thoracic procedures. We present the case of an 81-year-old man without a history of preceding trauma who presented with shortness of breath and nonproductive cough and grew Clostridium perfringens only in the pleural cavity. He was predisposed to the infection due to his swallowing dysfunction. He was treated with penicillin and chest tube placement for drainage and subsequently improved.
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spelling pubmed-58172672018-03-13 A Rare Case of Spontaneous Empyema by Clostridium perfringens Basnet, Sijan Mir, Izza Mohanty, Elan Dhital, Rashmi Tharu, Biswaraj Ram Poudel, Dilli Case Rep Infect Dis Case Report Empyema caused by clostridial infections is rare especially in the absence of invasive thoracic procedures. We present the case of an 81-year-old man without a history of preceding trauma who presented with shortness of breath and nonproductive cough and grew Clostridium perfringens only in the pleural cavity. He was predisposed to the infection due to his swallowing dysfunction. He was treated with penicillin and chest tube placement for drainage and subsequently improved. Hindawi 2018-01-08 /pmc/articles/PMC5817267/ /pubmed/29535878 http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2018/2791349 Text en Copyright © 2018 Sijan Basnet et al. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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Basnet, Sijan
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Dhital, Rashmi
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A Rare Case of Spontaneous Empyema by Clostridium perfringens
title A Rare Case of Spontaneous Empyema by Clostridium perfringens
title_full A Rare Case of Spontaneous Empyema by Clostridium perfringens
title_fullStr A Rare Case of Spontaneous Empyema by Clostridium perfringens
title_full_unstemmed A Rare Case of Spontaneous Empyema by Clostridium perfringens
title_short A Rare Case of Spontaneous Empyema by Clostridium perfringens
title_sort rare case of spontaneous empyema by clostridium perfringens
topic Case Report
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5817267/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29535878
http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2018/2791349
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