Epidemic Respiratory Disease: The pneumonias and other infections of the repiratory tract accompanying influenza and measlesOpie, Eugene L. (Eugene Lindsay)
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Epidemic Respiratory Disease: The pneumonias and other infections of the repiratory tract accompanying influenza and measles
=Autopsy 473.=—A. D. P., white, aged twenty-one, a student from
Missouri, had been in military service two weeks. He was admitted to
the hospital with influenza twenty-eight days before his death, and
four days after admission there were signs of pneumonia.
Paracentesis was performed on the right side on the eleventh day
after admission; 4 c.c. of cloudy fluid which contained Pneumococcus
III were obtained at this time and later in the day 800 c.c. were
withdrawn. On the thirteenth day attempted withdrawal of fluid from
both pleural cavities failed. On the eighteenth day aspiration of
the right pleural cavity yielded only 30 c.c. of fluid. On the
nineteenth day 400 c.c. of purulent fluid were withdrawn from the
right pleural cavity. On the twenty-fifth day there was cyanosis and
delirium. Shortly before death aspiration of the right pleural
cavity was attempted, but only 4 c.c. of fluid were obtained.
=Anatomic Diagnosis.=—Chronic bronchopneumonia with lobular and
peribronchiolar consolidation in left lung; fibrinopurulent pleurisy
on both sides; purulent bronchitis and bronchiectasis.
On removal of the sternum, encysted purulent pleurisy is found
between the inner surface of the right lung and the pericardium;
there is here 450 c.c. of very thick creamy, greenish yellow pus
entirely separated from the remainder of pleural cavity. The
external part of the cavity contains 1,450 c.c. of fluid and
voluminous masses of firm fibrin which placed in a measuring
cylinder occupy 450 c.c. The left pleural cavity contains 400 c.c.
of seropurulent fluid in which there is abundant sediment of
fibrinous particles.
The right lung is compressed; the bronchi exude purulent fluid. The
left lung is voluminous; in the upper and lower lobes there are
small yellowish gray nodules of consolidation, grouped in clusters,
and gray patches of lobular consolidation occur. Bronchi are dilated
and filled with purulent fluid.
Bacteriologic examination shows the presence of Pneumococcus III
obtained in pure culture from the blood of the heart and from the
right pleural cavity. S. viridans is grown from the left lung; a
plate from the right bronchus contained B. influenzæ, S. viridans
and a few colonies of staphylococcus and M. catarrhalis.
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