What Is a Parapneumonic Effusion?
Parapneumoniceffusion (PE) is a common complication of pneumonia, and about 40% of hospitalized patients with pneumonia may be complicated by pneumonia.
Parapleural effusion
- Western Medicine Name
- Parapleural effusion
- Affiliated Department
- Internal Medicine-Department of Infectious Diseases
- Contagious
- Non-contagious
- Whether to enter health insurance
- no
- Parapneumoniceffusion (PE) is a common complication of pneumonia, and about 40% of hospitalized patients with pneumonia may be complicated by pneumonia.
- In the case of complicated parapneumoniceffusion (CPE), traditional systemic treatment is used clinically, with a long course of treatment, often with unsatisfactory effects, and most of which affect lung function and have a higher mortality rate. Our hospital from January 1996 to 2006 In December of 2014, 44 patients with CPE who were hospitalized were treated with CT-guided thoracic catheter drainage and irrigation during systemic treatment, and received significant results.