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What does pyothorax mean?

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Pleuropulmonary complications include pneumothorax, hemothorax, pyothorax and septic pulmonary emboli.
Using pedicled omentum to treat BPF cases with concurrent pyothorax results in a favorable outcome because this method provides excellent infection control and improves local blood flow.
The postoperative course was complicated by pericarditis and tachyarrhythmias during the first 48 hours and subsequently by a left pyothorax.
Usually pyothorax-associated lymphoma arises in patients with a history of chronic pyothorax, typically resulting from iatrogenic pneumothorax for pulmonary tuberculosis or, more rarely, tubercular pleurisy.
The veterinarian and I couldn't figure out what was wrong until Tai developed a full-blown pyothorax in his chest.
To our knowledge this is the first report of pyothorax associated with A. haemolyticum from India.

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