title: [Pleural empyema after closed mitral commissurotomy].
abstract: Risk factors, causes and results of the treatment of 63 patients with pleura empyema after closed commissurotomy were studied. The incidence of this complication was 0,77% per 8147 operations. Among the direct causes of empyemas there were infected blood (47,6%) and exudate (41,3%) in the pleural cavity of abscessing infarction-pneumonia (9,5%). Open drainage was found to be the most effective method of the treatment. 81% of the patients recovered. Lethality was 19%, mainly due to pyo-septic complications.
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D004322:Drainage; D004653:Empyema / Q000209:etiology* / Q000276:immunology / Q000628:therapy; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007167:Immunotherapy; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D008946:Mitral Valve Stenosis / Q000601:surgery*; D011183:Postoperative Complications
vernacular_title: Empiema plevry posle zakrytoĭ mitral'noĭ komissurotomii.