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Complications

Last reviewed dd mmm yyyy. Last edited dd mmm yyyy

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Known complications include:

  • bronchial:
    • bronchiectasis
    • bronchial stenosis
    • rupture with spread of infection
    • haemorrhage and a bronchopleural fistula
  • parenchymal:
    • overdistension of the alveoli
    • collapse
    • secondary infection
  • pleural - empyema
  • distant spread: sepsis, brain abscesses, mediastinitis.

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