[Experience of successful treatment for a case of intractable chronic empyema with a bronchopleural fistula].

Kyobu Geka

Department of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery Hepato-Biliary-Pancreatic Surgery, Kagoshima University Graduate School, Kagoshima, Japan.

Published: March 2010

We report an experience of successful treatment for a case of intractable chronic empyema complicated by bronchopleural fistula (BPF). A 75-year-old woman who had severe diabetes mellitus complained of general fatigue and anorexia. A lung abscess in the right upper lobe was diagnosed and treated with antibiotics. Regrettably, it ruptured into a pyopneumothorax. The BPF was closed primarily and covered with intercostal muscle, but the procedure was not effective. The pyopneumothorax led to the development of chronic empyema with BPF. The patient was admitted to our hospital for treatment and the BPF was managed with a Dumon stent and endobronchial Watanabe spigot (EWS) but failed to heal. Therefore, open drainage was chosen as a 1st stage treatment. After healing the infected space, closure of the BPF and a bronchial embolization by EWS was performed with a closeire of space by pediculed omentum and muscle flap and with a thoracoplasty as a 2nd stage treatment. The postoperative course was uneventful, and the patient was discharged on post-operative day 51.

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