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Classroom classification

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Chronic purulent pleurisy

呼吸内科

Common symptoms

一侧胸廓塌陷、胸膜钙化、呼气时胸口痛、肋间隙变窄、胸膜休克、低蛋白血症、乏力、低热、脓胸、胸腔疼痛

The pathology of disease

Chronic purulent pleurisy is chronic empyema; adults; fever; weight loss; pleural thickening; drainage; antibiotics; decortication; thoracic surgery/ID.

Symptoms

Fever; weight loss; known; adult; drainage; antibiotics

Causes

Bacterial infection; empyema; chronic; adults.

Treatment

Drainage; antibiotics; decortication; thoracic surgery/ID; long-term

Dept

Thoracic surgery / infectious disease / pulmonology.

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