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Absceso pulmonar

Última revisión: 12 Aug 2025
Última actualización: 12 Dec 2023

Resumen

Definición

Anamnesis y examen

Principales factores de diagnóstico

  • presencia de factores de riesgo
  • fiebre
  • tos productiva
  • ruidos respiratorios cavernosos (anfóricos)
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Otros factores de diagnóstico

  • soplo cardíaco
  • dolor torácico pleurítico
  • síntomas constitucionales
  • caquexia
  • palidez
  • enfermedad gingival
  • halitosis
  • ausencia del reflejo faríngeo
  • disnea
  • hemoptisis
  • escalofríos intensos
  • debilidad
  • artralgia
  • lesiones hemorrágicas
  • crepitantes inspiratorios
  • respiración bronquial
  • ruidos respiratorios reducidos
  • roncus fijo unilateral
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Factores de riesgo

  • predisposición a la aspiración de contenido gástrico
  • higiene dental deficiente y extracción de piezas dentales
  • obstrucción bronquial
  • inmunosupresión
  • enfermedad crónica
  • sepsis extrapulmonar
  • neumonía
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Pruebas diagnósticas

Primeras pruebas diagnósticas para solicitar

  • hemograma completo (HC)
  • radiografía de tórax
  • tinción de Gram del esputo
  • cultivo de esputo
  • hemocultivo
  • cultivo del líquido de empiema
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Pruebas diagnósticas que deben considerarse

  • tomografía computarizada (CT) de tórax
  • broncoscopia
  • cultivos cuantitativos de muestras tomadas con cepillo protegido
  • cultivos cuantitativos de muestras de lavado broncoalveolar protegido
  • aspiración con aguja percutánea y cultivo
  • citología de esputo
  • ultrasonido de pulmón
  • ecocardiograma
  • ensayo inmunoenzimático rápido (ELISA) para el dímero D
  • tomografía computarizada de tórax con detector múltiple
  • gammagrafía de ventilación-perfusión
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Algoritmo de tratamiento

Agudo

probabilidad baja de microorganismos gramnegativos o resistentes a múltiples fármacos

probabilidad alta de microorganismos gramnegativos o resistentes a múltiples fármacos

En curso

probabilidad baja de microorganismos gramnegativos o resistentes a múltiples fármacos

alta probabilidad de microorganismos gramnegativos o resistentes a múltiples fármacos: con o sin alergia a penicilina/cefalosporina

Colaboradores

Autores

Ioannis P. Kioumis, MD, PhD
Ioannis P. Kioumis

Professor of Respiratory Medicine and Infectious Diseases

Aristotle University of Thessaloniki

Respiratory Failure Clinic

General Hospital G. Papanikolaou

Thessaloniki

Greece

Declarações

IPK declares that he has no competing interests.

Georgia G. Pitsiou, MD, PhD
Georgia G. Pitsiou

Professor of Respiratory Medicine

Aristotle University of Thessaloniki

Respiratory Failure Clinic

General Hospital G. Papanikolaou

Thessaloniki

Greece

Declarações

GGP declares that she has no competing interests.

Revisores

William G. Cheadle, MD

Professor of Surgery

University of Louisville

Associate Chief of Staff for Research and Development

VAMC Louisville

Louisville

KY

Declarações

WGC declares that he has no competing interests.

Nicholas Maskell, MD

Senior Lecturer and Consultant Physician

North Bristol Lung Centre

Southmead Hospital

Bristol

UK

Declarações

NM declares that he has no competing interests.

Najib Rahman, BM, BCh, MA (Oxon), MRCP (UK)

MRC Training Fellow and Specialist Registrar, Respiratory Medicine

Oxford Centre for Respiratory Medicine

Churchill Hospital

Oxford

UK

Declarações

NR declares that he has no competing interests.

Philip W. Ind, BA (Cantab), MB BChir, MA (Cantab), FRCP

Consultant Physician

Honorary Senior Lecturer

Imperial College Healthcare Trust

Hammersmith Hospital

London

UK

Declarações

PWI declares that he has no competing interests.

Peer reviewer acknowledgements

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Disclosures

Peer reviewer affiliations and disclosures pertain to the time of the review.

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Principais artigos

Walters J, Foley N, Molyneux M. Continuing education in anaesthesia, critical care and pain: pus in the thorax: management of empyema and lung abscess. 2011 Dec 1;11(6):229-33.Texto completo

American College of Radiology. ACR appropriateness criteria: radiologic management of infected fluid collections. 2019 [internet publication].Texto completo

American College of Radiology; Society of Interventional Radiology; Society for Pediatric Radiology. ACR-SIR-SPR practice guideline for specifications and performance of image-guided percutaneous drainage/aspiration of abscesses and fluid collections (PDAFC). 2023 [internet publication].Texto completo

Artigos de referência

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  • Diretrizes

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