[Treatment of acute nonspecific empyema]

The experience with treatment of 104 patients with non-specific pleural empyema without bronchial fistula is summarized. The local use of antibacterial agents in combination with proteolytic enzymes against the background of rational general immunocorrective therapy permitted to cure without operative intervention 124 patients. Four patients were operated on. They underwent decortication of a lung with pleurectomy. One patient died.