Exacerbations also occurred more frequently among patients with more purulent sputum vs. mucoid sputum over 5 years, as demonstrated by incidence rate ratios (IRRs) of 1.26 (95% CI, 1.19-1.33 ...

The color of the phlegm from patients with the lung disease bronchiectasis can indicate ... (5380) had mucopurulent, 18% (2486) had purulent, and 1% (177) had severe purulent sputum. Dr ...

The air sacs may fill with fluid or pus (purulent material), causing cough with phlegm or pus, fever, chills, and difficulty breathing. A variety of organisms, including bacteria, ...

The color of the phlegm from patients with the lung disease bronchiectasis can indicate the degree ... 40% (5380) had mucopurulent, 18% (2486) had purulent, and 1% (177) had severe purulent sputum.

Preliminary results of the transtracheal method, confirmed by cultures obtained at open thoracotomy, indicate that patients with chronic cough productive of purulent sputum, who have reddened ...

In some cases, you will see something called purulent drainage from your wound. This is an indication that the injury has become infected. If this happens, you need to contact your doctor.

Pneumonia is considered when symptoms include fever, chills, shortness of breath and purulent phlegm. A subacute cough lasts three to eight weeks.

Purulent drainage is a thick and milky discharge from a wound. It often indicates an infection and needs treatment as soon as possible. Regularly inspecting a wound is an integral part of the ...

Dr Critchton and her colleagues recorded the sputum colour in 13,484 out of 19,324 patients who regularly coughed up sputum and who were enrolled in the pan-European bronchiectasis registry, EMBARC.

Forty percent of the sputum-producing patients (5541) had mucoid sputum, 40% (5380) had mucopurulent, 18% (2486) had purulent, and 1% (177) had severe purulent sputum.

A 65-year-old White man is brought in by EMS for worsening shortness of breath over the previous 2 days, cough producing purulent sputum, and fever of 103°F.

Dr Crichton said: "We found an increased risk of exacerbations, hospitalisations and death with more purulent sputum. For each 1-point increase in sputum purulence, there was a 12% increased risk ...