4 = mucopurulent sputum, 5 = purulent sputum. c Night-time awakenings evaluated on a 5-point scale: 0 = none, 1 = minimal, 2 = infrequent, 3 = frequent, 4 = numerous.

Inflammation and purulent exudate occurred over the following 2 weeks but the patient did not seek medical counsel. The patient's temperature was 36.3°C and blood analysis revealed mild leucocytosis ...

They detailed the clinical, bacteriological, and postmortem features of the disease, typically including dyspnoea without orthopnoea, cyanosis, tachycardia, thick, purulent sputum obstructing the ...

I initially became hooked on ID when I was a medical student rounding on ID service and was evaluating a person with pneumonia who had just expectorated purulent sputum. As a physician trained in ...

The risk group includes people with diseases that increase the likelihood of purulent inflammation, for example, patients with diabetes mellitus. With bronchiectatic disease, there is a possibility of ...

results in purulent secretions and a variety of potential adverse consequences for patients with chronic bronchitis and bronchiectasis. We hypothesised that gradations of sputum colour would correlate ...

In a young infant with clinical and laboratory evidence of serious bacterial infection without other apparent source of infection, widened mediastinum may represent mediastinal abscess and globular ...

nhs.net A 79-year-old woman presented to acute services with a 2-week history of shortness of breath, fever and a cough productive of purulent sputum. She had a medical history of polymyalgia ...

Objective To evaluate the use of cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) ferritin levels in the diagnosis of purulent meningitis (PM). Method We studied 81 children between 28 days and 12 years of age who presented ...