Surgery for Pleural Sepsis

Alper Toker of Istanbul University Medical School, Istanbul, Turkey, delivers a talk on the surgical options for treating pleural sepsis. Dr. Toker discusses the recent shift in the treatment of empyema, including a more liberal use of VATS and the application of minimally invasive interventions at an earlier stage of the process. 

This presentation was originally given during the SCTS Ionescu University program at the 80th Annual Meeting of the Society for Cardiothoracic Surgery in Great Britain and Ireland. This content is published with the permission of SCTS. Please click here for information on the 2016 SCTS Annual Meeting.