The drainage of a lung abscess may be performed by positioning the patient in a way that enables the contents to be discharged via the respiratory tract.
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A pneumonia may develop complications such as a lung abscess, a round cavity in the lung caused by the infection, or may spread to the pleural cavity.
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"' Lung abscess "'is a type of liquefactive necrosis of the lung tissue and formation of cavities ( more than 2 cm ) containing necrotic debris or fluid caused by microbial infection.
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Florence was hospitalized for long periods both for her depressions and for the lung abscess, and she died in 1924 due to an infection following surgery, providing the final incentive for Sapir to leave Canada.
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Bloody sputum ( known as hemoptysis ) may also occur with tuberculosis, Gram-negative pneumonia, and lung abscesses as well as more commonly with acute bronchitis . " Mycoplasma " pneumonia may occur in association with middle ear infection.
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Lung abscess is considered primary ( 60 % ) when it results from existing lung parenchymal process and is termed secondary when it complicates another process e . g . vascular emboli or follows rupture of extrapulmonary abscess into lung.
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These infections include brain abscess, oral or dental infections, human or animal bites, aspiration pneumonia and lung abscesses, amnionitis, endometritis, septic abortions, tubo-ovarian abscess, peritonitis and abdominal abscesses following viscus perforation, abscesses in and around the oral and rectal areas, pus-forming necrotizing infections of soft tissue or muscle and postsurgical infections that emerge following procedures on the oral or gastrointestinal tract or female pelvic area.
