Empyema due to ventriculopleural shunt |
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| Authors: | G Iosif J Fleischman R Chitkara |
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| Institution: | Department of Medicine, Queens Hospital Center Affiliation of Long Island Jewish Medical Center, New York. |
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| Abstract: | Empyema developing seven weeks after craniotomy in a 62-year-old black woman with an ipsilateral ventriculopleural (V-PL) shunt is described. Infection of the pleural space presumably resulted from transfer of organisms from a proximal V-PL shunt infection to the thorax. Empyema resulting from V-PL shunt infection has not previously been reported. Pleural effusions in patients with V-PL shunts must be considered as a potential site of infection with possible development of empyema. |
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