Cerebral air embolism after indwelling pleural catheter insertion in a chronic hydropneumothorax secondary to epithelioid mesothelioma

A 75-year-old man with a history of epithelioid mesothelioma and a right-sided indwelling pleural catheter (IPC) presented with a history of a purulent fluid drainage via the IPC. The pleural fluid cultured Klebsiella oxytoca and Enterococcus faecalis. He was treated with a course of oral fluoroquin...

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Autores principales: Jayawardena, Dissanayake Mudiyanselage Chanaka, Panchal, Rakesh K, Agrawal, Sanjay, Das, Indrajeet
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BMJ Publishing Group 2021
Materias:
Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8323361/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34326118
http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/bcr-2021-244006

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