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Empyema Tube or No Tube?

We report the case of a 36-year-old man with cirrhosis who presented with recurrent infection of his right-sided hepatic hydrothorax in the form of fever, dyspnea, and cough. The pleural fluid analysis showed transudative fluid with normal pH, lactic acid dehydrogenase, and glucose, but with Escheri...

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Autores principales: Magendiran, Bhoobalan, Viswanathan, Stalin, Selvaraj, Jayachandran, Pillai, Vivekanandan
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Cureus 2021
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7899129/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33633873
http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.12829