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  • Title: [Patient with a lung abscess, primarily treated with drainage followed by antibiotics].
    Author: Heddema ER, Teengs JP, Kunst PW.
    Journal: Ned Tijdschr Geneeskd; 2002 Jan 12; 146(2):77-9. PubMed ID: 11820062.
    Abstract:
    A 45-year-old woman presented herself with coughing, nocturnal sweating, weight loss, and chest pain, left laterally. In the previous 5 months she had been treated twice with antibiotics due to a suspected pneumonia. With the help of a CT scan, 2 subpleural lung abscesses were diagnosed. The primary treatment was CT-guided drainage, as a result of which the largest abscess was emptied and a microbiological diagnosis could be established. Subsequently, the patient made a quick recovery with the help of specific antibiotics. It might be better to drain lung abscesses, especially subpleural ones, at an early stage rather than wait for the results of a trial treatment with antibiotics.
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