title: [Results and complications of treatment of acute and chronic pleural empyema--a retrospective analysis of the last 5 years].
abstract: In 162 patients treated surgically for pleural empyema, 212 surgical interventions were necessary. As primary treatment cest-tube drainage was more effective than closed chest tubes. Decortication, which was carried out in 43 patients, was followed by further surgical procedures in three patients. If primary treatment is not effective early decortication is indicated to avoid septic complications (30-day mortality amounted to 7.4%). Two patients died from septic complications.
authors.affiliation: Chirurgische Abteilung, Thoraxklinik Heidelberg-Rohrbach.
authors.forename: H G
authors.initials: HG
authors.lastname: Bauer
authors.forename: G
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Probst
authors.forename: E
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Bauer
authors.forename: I
authors.initials: I
authors.lastname: Vogt-Moykopf
mesh_terms: D002908:Chronic Disease; D004322:Drainage; D016724:Empyema, Pleural / Q000209:etiology / Q000601:surgery*; D004654:Empyema, Tuberculous / Q000601:surgery; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008875:Middle Aged; D011025:Pneumonolysis; D011183:Postoperative Complications / Q000209:etiology* / Q000601:surgery; D012086:Reoperation; D012189:Retrospective Studies; D007507:Therapeutic Irrigation; D013905:Thoracoplasty
vernacular_title: Ergebnisse und Komplikationen der Behandlung des akuten und chronischen Pleuraempyems--eine retrospektive Analyse der letzten 5 Jahre.