Intrapleural fibrinolytic treatment of multiloculated pediatric empyemas

Minerva Pediatrica

Volumn 56, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 419-423

  Ulku, R ^a   Onat, S ^a   Kilic N ^a  

^a DICLE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Turkey)

Author keywords

Empyema; Fibrinolysis; Pleura; Streptokinase; Urokinase

Indexed keywords

AMINOGLYCOSIDE ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; CLINDAMYCIN; FIBRINOLYTIC AGENT; GLUCOSE; LACTATE DEHYDROGENASE; PENICILLIN G; STREPTOKINASE; UROKINASE;

ADOLESCENT; ANTIBIOTIC THERAPY; ARTICLE; CHILD; CHILDHOOD DISEASE; CHRONIC DISEASE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DRUG HYPERSENSITIVITY; EMPHYSEMA; FEMALE; FIBRINOLYSIS; HUMAN; INFANT; LUNG HEMORRHAGE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PLEURA; PLEURA BIOPSY; SEPSIS; THORAX DRAINAGE; THORAX RADIOGRAPHY; TREATMENT OUTCOME; TUBE;

ADOLESCENT; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; CHRONIC DISEASE; EMPYEMA; FEMALE; FIBRINOLYTIC AGENTS; HUMANS; INFANT; MALE; PLEURAL DISEASES; STREPTOKINASE; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; URINARY PLASMINOGEN ACTIVATOR;

EID: 7644237450     PISSN: 00264946     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

References (14)

1. Tillet WS, Sherry S. The effect in patients of streptococcal fibrinolysin (streptokinase) and streptococcal deoxyribonuclease on fibrinous, purulent, and sanguinous pleural exudations. J Clin Invest 1949;23:173-9.
2. Robinson LA, Moulton AL, Fleming WH, Alonso A, Galbraith TA. Intrapleural fibrinolytic treatment of multiloculated thoracic empyemas. Ann Thorac Surg 1994;57:803-14.
3. Vogelzang RL, Tobin RS, Burstein S, Anschuetz SL, Martano M, Kozlowski JM. Transcatheter intracavitary fibrinolysis of infected extravascular hemotomas. AJR Am J Roentenol 1987;148:378-80.
4. Andrews NC, Parker EF, Shaw RR, Wilson NJ, Webb WR. Management of nontuberculous empyema: A statement the subcommittee on surgery. Am Rev Resp Dis 1962;85:935-6.
5. DeMeester TR, Lafontaine E. The Pleura. In: Sabiston DC, Spencer FC editors. Gibon's Surgery of Chest. Philadelphia: W.B Saunders Company; 1990;p.444-97.
6. Temes RT, Follis F, Kessler RM, Pett SB Jr, Wernly JA. Intrapleural fibrinolytics in management of empyemas thoracis. Chest 1996;110:102-6.
7. Mitchell ME, Alberts WM, Chandler KW, Goldman AL. Intrapleural streptokinase in management of parapneumonic effusion: report of series and rewiew of literature. J Fla Med Assoc 1989;76:1019-22.
8. Lee KS, Im J, Kim YH, Wang SH, Bac WK, Lee BH. Treatment of thoracic multiloculated empyemas with intra cavitary urokinase; a prospective study. Radiology 1991;179:771-5.
9. Ridley PD, Braimbridge MV. Thoracoscopic debridement and pleural irrigation in the management of empyema thoracis. Ann Thorac Surg 1991;51;461-4.
10. Hutter JA, Harrari D, Braimbridge MV. The treatment of ciomplicated pleural fluid collections witgh image-guided drainage and intracavitary urokinase. Ann Thorac Surg 1985;39:517-20.
11. Aye RW, Froese DP, Hill LD. Use of purified streptokinase in empyema and hemothorax. Am J Surg 1991;161:560-2.
12. Fraedrich G, Hofmann D, Effenhauser P, Jander R. Instillation of fibrinolytic enzymes in treatment of pleural empyema. Thorac Cardiovasc Surg 1982;30:36-8.
13. Moulton JS, Benkert RE, Weisiger KH, Chambers JA. Treatment of complicated pleural fluid collections with image guided drainage and intracavitary urokinase. Chest 1995;108:1252-9.
14. Jerjes-Sanchez C, Ramirez-Rivera A, Elizalde JJ, Delgado R, Cicero R, Usarra-Perez C, et al. Intrapleural fibrinolysis with streptokinase as an adjunctive treatment in hemothorax and empyema: a multicenter trial. Chest 1996;109:1514-9.