This section presents medications that are known to potentially lead to 'Lung abscess' as a side effect. It's important to note that mild side effects are quite common with medications. Please be ...

IN TREATING patients with suppurative lung abscess the practitioner is often confused by the conflicting views expressed in current medical literature. Should such cases be treated surgically from the ...

A lung abscess is a localized (usually >2.0cm in diameter), suppurative necrotizing collection occurring within the pulmonary parenchyma. A number of infectious agents can be responsible for abscess ...

THE association of cardiospasm and respiratory symptoms has been recognized since the beginning of the nineteenth century. Not until relatively recent years, however, has attention been directed to ...

Chest X-ray of a lung abscess. An abscess is an accumulation of puss within a cavity in tissue. It is usually as a result of an infection or other foreign material Is the use of proton pump inhibitors ...

Tuberculosis (TB) is a reasonable guess, given this clinical presentation, except for the relatively acute onset of illness and the hyperbilirubinemia. This patient's TB exposure history is minimal, ...

Stephen E. Cassle, Eric D. Jensen, Cynthia R. Smith, Jennifer M. Meegan, Shawn P. Johnson, Betsy Lutmerding, Sam H. Ridgway and Ruth Francis-Floyd This brief communication describes the clinical ...

Kostmann syndrome, severe congenital neutropenia, is often associated with life-threatening bacterial infections. A 5-year-old girl with Kostmann syndrome developed pulmonary abscesses. She was ...