Pharmacotherapy in complicated parapneumonic pleural effusions and thoracic empyema

Pulmonary Pharmacology and Therapeutics

Volumn 18, Issue 6, 2005, Pages 381-389

  Schiza, Sophia E ^a   Antoniou, Katerina M ^a   Economidou, Foteini N ^a   Siafakas, Nikolaos M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL OF HERAKLION   (Greece)

Author keywords

Fibrinolytic agents; Parapneumonic pleural effusions; Pleural empyema

Indexed keywords

ALTEPLASE; ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; DEOXYRIBONUCLEASE; DORNASE ALFA; ENZYME ANTIBODY; FIBRINOLYTIC AGENT; STREPTODORNASE; STREPTODORNASE PLUS STREPTOKINASE; STREPTOKINASE; TISSUE PLASMINOGEN ACTIVATOR; UROKINASE;

ABNORMALLY HIGH SUBSTRATE CONCENTRATION IN BLOOD; ANTIBODY BLOOD LEVEL; CATHETERIZATION; CLINICAL TRIAL; DISEASE CLASSIFICATION; DISEASE COURSE; DRUG EFFICACY; DRUG HALF LIFE; DRUG HYPERSENSITIVITY; DRUG SAFETY; FEVER; HEART ARRHYTHMIA; HISTAMINE RELEASE; HUMAN; LEUKOCYTOSIS; LUNG SURGERY; MALAISE; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PLEURA EFFUSION; PLEURA EMPYEMA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SIDE EFFECT; SUCTION DRAINAGE; SURGICAL DRAINAGE; THORACOCENTESIS; THORACOSCOPY; THORACOTOMY; THORAX DRAINAGE; TREATMENT CONTRAINDICATION; TREATMENT INDICATION; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

DEBRIDEMENT; DRAINAGE; EMPYEMA, PLEURAL; FIBRINOLYTIC AGENTS; HUMANS; PLEURAL EFFUSION; PNEUMONIA;

EID: 25144499543     PISSN: 10945539     EISSN: 15229629     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.pupt.2004.12.001     Document Type: Review

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