A 37-year-old woman with diabetes mellitus, systemic hypertension, and chronic kidney disease admitted with multifocal pneumonia and empyema

Chest. 2014 Aug;146(2):e41-e46. doi: 10.1378/chest.13-2711.

Authors

J Terrill Huggins¹, Nithin Karakala², Ruth Campbell², Carlos Kummerfeldt³, Jennings Nestor³, Nicholas J Pastis³, Peter Doelken⁴

Affiliations

¹ Division of Pulmonary, Critical Care, Allergy, and Sleep Medicine, Medical University of South Carolina, Charleston, SC. Electronic address: hugginjt@musc.edu.
² Division of Nephrology, Medical University of South Carolina, Charleston, SC.
³ Division of Pulmonary, Critical Care, Allergy, and Sleep Medicine, Medical University of South Carolina, Charleston, SC.
⁴ Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care, Albany Medical Center, Albany, NY.

PMID: 25091761
DOI: 10.1378/chest.13-2711

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MeSH terms

Adult
Diabetes Mellitus, Type 1 / complications*
Diagnosis, Differential
Echocardiography, Doppler, Pulsed
Empyema, Pleural / diagnosis
Empyema, Pleural / etiology*
Empyema, Pleural / therapy
Female
Follow-Up Studies
Humans
Hypertension / complications*
Intensive Care Units*
Pneumonia / diagnosis
Pneumonia / etiology*
Pneumonia / therapy
Positive-Pressure Respiration
Renal Insufficiency, Chronic / complications*
Thoracoscopy
Thoracostomy / methods