A Unique Case of Tension Empyema Caused by Prevotella denticola

A 45-year-old male presented to the emergency department after being found unresponsive. Vitals, laboratory findings, and chest X-ray revealed concern for tension empyema. Thoracostomy was performed, and hemodynamics subsequently improved. Later, Prevotella denticola was cultured. This is the first...

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Autores principales: Javeed, Masi, Rahmouni Idrissi, Fahd, Nazary, Nek
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Cureus 2022
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Emergency Medicine
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9272902/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35832761
http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.25853
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description A 45-year-old male presented to the emergency department after being found unresponsive. Vitals, laboratory findings, and chest X-ray revealed concern for tension empyema. Thoracostomy was performed, and hemodynamics subsequently improved. Later, Prevotella denticola was cultured. This is the first known reported case of tension Prevotella denticola empyema.
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spelling pubmed-92729022022-07-12 A Unique Case of Tension Empyema Caused by Prevotella denticola Javeed, Masi Rahmouni Idrissi, Fahd Nazary, Nek Cureus Emergency Medicine A 45-year-old male presented to the emergency department after being found unresponsive. Vitals, laboratory findings, and chest X-ray revealed concern for tension empyema. Thoracostomy was performed, and hemodynamics subsequently improved. Later, Prevotella denticola was cultured. This is the first known reported case of tension Prevotella denticola empyema. Cureus 2022-06-11 /pmc/articles/PMC9272902/ /pubmed/35832761 http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.25853 Text en Copyright © 2022, Javeed et al. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9272902/
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