Because lung abscess is a serious condition patients need quiet and bed rest. Hospital care usually includes increasing the patient's fluid intake to loosen up the secretions in the lungs, and physical therapy to strengthen the patient's breathing muscles
Patients with lung abscess need careful follow-up care after the acute infection subsides. Follow-up usually includes chest x rays to make sure that the infection has cleared up. Treatment with antibiotics may continue for as long as four months.
Blood tests cannot be used to make a diagnosis of lung abscess, but they can be useful in ruling out other conditions. Patients with lung abscess usually have abnormally high white blood cell counts (leukocytosis )
Most patients with lung abscess will not need surgery. About 5% of patients-usually those who do not respond to antibiotics or are coughing up large amounts of blood may have emergency surgery for removal of the diseased part of the lung
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About 95% of lung abscess patients can be treated successfully with antibiotics alone. Patients who need surgical treatment have a mortality rate of 10-15%.
posterior segment of right upper lobe followed by right lower lobe are the most common site of primary lung abscess
Lung abscess is usually slow to develop. It may take about two weeks after aspiration or bronchial obstruction for an abscess to produce noticeable symptoms.
An abscess is essentially an infection that results in a hole forming in the tissue. The risk factors for getting a lung abscess include having lung cancer, severe pneumonia, or accidentally breathing in something poisonous or harmful.
triple antibiotics like gentamycine,metriondazole and ceftazidin
The doctor will use the results of a chest x ray to help distinguish lung abscess from empyema, cancer, tuberculosis, or cysts. In patients with lung abscess, the x ray will show a thick-walled unified clear space or cavity surrounded by solid tissue
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