One of the most serious complications met in treating tuberculosis is what the doctors call empyema, i.
So surgeons last week cut through his sixth rib (the routine procedure for an empyema operation), put a rubber tube into the opening, let the fluid drain off.
Family feels 'power of all the prayers' for critically ill 4-year-old Less than a week later after 4-year-old Isaac Dansie first spiked a fever, he was being flown by helicopter to Primary Children's Hospital with pleural empyema. His family says they can feel the power of all the prayers on his behalf and hope a miracle will bring the boy home before Christmas.
Dec. 17, 2013 - KSL Salt Lake City