Final answer:
Patients with empyema, emphysema, and gangrene can have different sets of symptoms.
Step-by-step explanation:
Patients with empyema, emphysema, and gangrene can have different sets of symptoms:
- For empyema, symptoms may include chest pain, fever, cough, shortness of breath, and the production of pus-filled phlegm.
- For emphysema, symptoms may include shortness of breath, wheezing, chest tightness, and chronic cough.
- For gangrene, symptoms may include rapidly spreading myonecrosis (death of muscle tissue), excruciating pain, foul-smelling wound with gas bubbles, yellowish discharge tinged with blood, edema, cutaneous blisters, liquefied tissue, septic shock, and organ failure.