Empiemas pleurales por Gemella spp: una etiología no tan infrecuente

Background: Gemella genus bacteria can produce localized or generalized severe infections, but very rarely they have been described as causingpulmonary infections or pleural empyemas. Aim: To characterize patients with empyema caused by Gemella genus bacteria. Material and Methods: The database of a...

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Autores principales:	Aibar-Arregui,Miguel Ángel, De Escalante-Yangüela,Begoña, Garrido-Buenache,Ana, Navarro-Aguilar,María Elena, Montoya-Arenas,José, Rodero-Roldán,María Del Mar
Lenguaje:	Spanish / Castilian
Publicado:	Sociedad Médica de Santiago 2012
Materias:	Empyema, pleural Gemella Lung diseases
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spelling	oai:scielo:S0034-988720120012000042013-05-02Empiemas pleurales por Gemella spp: una etiología no tan infrecuenteAibar-Arregui,Miguel ÁngelDe Escalante-Yangüela,BegoñaGarrido-Buenache,AnaNavarro-Aguilar,María ElenaMontoya-Arenas,JoséRodero-Roldán,María Del Mar Empyema, pleural Gemella Lung diseases Background: Gemella genus bacteria can produce localized or generalized severe infections, but very rarely they have been described as causingpulmonary infections or pleural empyemas. Aim: To characterize patients with empyema caused by Gemella genus bacteria. Material and Methods: The database of a Microbiology laboratory of a Spanish hospital was reviewed, searchingfor Gemella positive cultures ofpleural effusions in a period offive years. Results: We identified 12 patients (11 males) with Gemella spp pleural empyema. Eight were infected with G. haemolysans and four with G. morbillorum. All patients had predisposingfactors such as poor oral hygiene, smoking, chronic cardiovascular or respiratory disease, alcoholism or malignancies. In ten cases, a thoracic drainage tube was placed with fibrinolysis in seven. One patient needed surgery because of a relapse of the empyema. Two patients died because of an advanced neoplasm, and the empyema was resolved in the rest. Conclusions: Gemella pleural empyema can occur and its isolation must not be seen as a contamination.info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccessSociedad Médica de SantiagoRevista médica de Chile v.140 n.12 20122012-12-01text/htmlhttp://www.scielo.cl/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0034-98872012001200004es10.4067/S0034-98872012001200004
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topic	Empyema, pleural Gemella Lung diseases
spellingShingle	Empyema, pleural Gemella Lung diseases Aibar-Arregui,Miguel Ángel De Escalante-Yangüela,Begoña Garrido-Buenache,Ana Navarro-Aguilar,María Elena Montoya-Arenas,José Rodero-Roldán,María Del Mar Empiemas pleurales por Gemella spp: una etiología no tan infrecuente
description	Background: Gemella genus bacteria can produce localized or generalized severe infections, but very rarely they have been described as causingpulmonary infections or pleural empyemas. Aim: To characterize patients with empyema caused by Gemella genus bacteria. Material and Methods: The database of a Microbiology laboratory of a Spanish hospital was reviewed, searchingfor Gemella positive cultures ofpleural effusions in a period offive years. Results: We identified 12 patients (11 males) with Gemella spp pleural empyema. Eight were infected with G. haemolysans and four with G. morbillorum. All patients had predisposingfactors such as poor oral hygiene, smoking, chronic cardiovascular or respiratory disease, alcoholism or malignancies. In ten cases, a thoracic drainage tube was placed with fibrinolysis in seven. One patient needed surgery because of a relapse of the empyema. Two patients died because of an advanced neoplasm, and the empyema was resolved in the rest. Conclusions: Gemella pleural empyema can occur and its isolation must not be seen as a contamination.
author	Aibar-Arregui,Miguel Ángel De Escalante-Yangüela,Begoña Garrido-Buenache,Ana Navarro-Aguilar,María Elena Montoya-Arenas,José Rodero-Roldán,María Del Mar
author_facet	Aibar-Arregui,Miguel Ángel De Escalante-Yangüela,Begoña Garrido-Buenache,Ana Navarro-Aguilar,María Elena Montoya-Arenas,José Rodero-Roldán,María Del Mar
author_sort	Aibar-Arregui,Miguel Ángel
title	Empiemas pleurales por Gemella spp: una etiología no tan infrecuente
title_short	Empiemas pleurales por Gemella spp: una etiología no tan infrecuente
title_full	Empiemas pleurales por Gemella spp: una etiología no tan infrecuente
title_fullStr	Empiemas pleurales por Gemella spp: una etiología no tan infrecuente
title_full_unstemmed	Empiemas pleurales por Gemella spp: una etiología no tan infrecuente
title_sort	empiemas pleurales por gemella spp: una etiología no tan infrecuente
publisher	Sociedad Médica de Santiago
publishDate	2012
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Empiemas pleurales por Gemella spp: una etiología no tan infrecuente

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