lung abscess/アルブミン

Eighty patients required surgical drainage of infections in the pleural space or lung during a four-year period (1984-1987). Thirty-nine patients had a history of heavy intravenous drug use and 28 of those not addicted to drugs were addicted to alcohol. Impaired immunity was believed to be present

Anaerobic bacteria from the oral flora are important causes of aspiration pneumonia and lung abscess. However, the pulmonary antibacterial response to these organisms has not been well described. To define this, mice were intratracheally inoculated with 10(9) Bacteroides gingivalis, a member of the

A group of 306 patients with acute pulmonary hemorrhage were evaluated by means of bronchial arteriography and treated with transcatheter embolization. Specific causes for bleeding included lung abscess, chronic pneumonia, tuberculosis, lung cancer, and bronchiectasis. In 120 patients the hemoptysis