Abstract
SUMMARY Significant morbidity and mortality result from ineffective evacuation of pleural empyema. Standard treatment for pleural empyema includes; pleural drainage, and the use of antibiotics. This conventional treatment may not be effective for fibrin deposition and loculated empyema. Intrapleural streptokinase is an effective adjunct in the management of pleural emyema, and an alternative treatment of choice for surgery. In this article, we present two cases, which we performed intrapleural streptokinase with the diagnosis of multiloculated pleural empyema.
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