He was started on intravenous piperacillin-tazobactam for suspected aspiration pneumonia ... any acute intracranial pathology. CT chest, as shown in figure 2, revealed a small amount of parapneumonic ...

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Low-dose CT chest scans could help detect pneumonia in at-risk patients while exposing them to small amounts of radiation, a ...

Introduction Parapneumonic effusion and empyema are common complications of paediatric pneumonia. Acceptable treatment modalities ... antibiotics alone; (2) chest tube drainage without fibrinolytics; ...

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A CT scan of the soft tissue of ... of breathing and worsening hypoxemia. The chest x-ray was unchanged, and the chest ultrasound demonstrated a focal left lower lobe consolidation and trace left ...

Some require only antibiotics and observation, while others require chest ... of a parapneumonic effusion should, whenever possible, be based on the cause of the underlying pneumonia.

However, in unusual cases, this condition can spread to the pleura, leading to a malignant pleural effusion. The authors present a case of an 80-year-old female presenting with dyspnoea following ...