"Empyema, Pleural" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus,
MeSH (Medical Subject Headings). Descriptors are arranged in a hierarchical structure,
which enables searching at various levels of specificity.
Suppurative inflammation of the pleural space.
| Descriptor ID |
D016724
|
| MeSH Number(s) |
C01.539.739.484 C01.539.830.305.310 C08.528.240 C08.730.265
|
| Concept/Terms |
Empyema, Pleural- Empyema, Pleural
- Empyemas, Pleural
- Pleural Empyema
- Pleural Empyemas
- Empyema, Thoracic
- Empyemas, Thoracic
- Thoracic Empyema
- Thoracic Empyemas
- Pyothorax
|
Below are MeSH descriptors whose meaning is more general than "Empyema, Pleural".
Below are MeSH descriptors whose meaning is more specific than "Empyema, Pleural".
This graph shows the total number of publications written about "Empyema, Pleural" by people in this website by year, and whether "Empyema, Pleural" was a major or minor topic of these publications.
To see the data from this visualization as text,
click here.
| Year | Major Topic | Minor Topic | Total |
|---|
| 1996 | 2 | 0 | 2 |
| 1997 | 1 | 1 | 2 |
| 1998 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 2003 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2004 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2006 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2009 | 0 | 3 | 3 |
| 2011 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2013 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 2016 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2018 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2020 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2021 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2022 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2025 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
To return to the timeline,
click here.
Below are the most recent publications written about "Empyema, Pleural" by people in Profiles.
-
Parapneumonic Empyema Complicating Community-acquired Pneumonia: Etiology in the Era of Pneumococcal Vaccination and Role of Molecular Diagnosis. Pediatr Infect Dis J. 2025 Apr 21; 44(7):622-629.
-
Efficacy of standardizing fibrinolytic therapy for parapneumonic effusion. Pediatr Radiol. 2022 11; 52(12):2413-2420.
-
Protocol-driven Antibiotic Treatment of Pediatric Empyema After Fibrinolysis. Pediatr Infect Dis J. 2021 01; 40(1):44-48.
-
Declining frequency of thoracoscopic decortication for empyema - redefining failure after fibrinolysis. J Pediatr Surg. 2020 Nov; 55(11):2352-2355.
-
Analysis of Patients Discharged From the Hospital With a Chest Tube in Place. Ann Thorac Surg. 2018 04; 105(4):1038-1043.
-
Empyema management: A cohort study evaluating antimicrobial therapy. J Infect. 2016 May; 72(5):537-43.
-
Diagnosing diagnostic error. Curr Probl Pediatr Adolesc Health Care. 2013 Oct; 43(9):227-31.
-
Molecular analysis improves pathogen identification and epidemiologic study of pediatric parapneumonic empyema. Pediatr Infect Dis J. 2011 Apr; 30(4):289-94.
-
Acellular dermal matrix closure of catastrophic bronchopleural fistula. Ann Thorac Surg. 2010 Feb; 89(2):601-3.
-
Mediastinoscopy-assisted minimally invasive closure of a bronchopleural fistula: a new technique to manage an old problem. J Thorac Cardiovasc Surg. 2010 Jul; 140(1):244-5.