Significance of serum-pleural effusion albumin gradient in differentiating transudative and exudative pleural effusions in comparison to light’s criteria
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Pleural Fluid Cholesterol in Differentiating Exudative and Transudative Pleural Effusion
Objectives. To study the diagnostic value of pleural fluid cholesterol in differentiating transudative and exudative pleural effusion. To compare pleural fluid cholesterol level for exudates with Light's criteria. Design. Cross sectional descriptive study. Settings. Medical wards of Tribhuvan University Teaching Hospital. Methods. Sixty two cases of pleural effusion with definite clinical diagn...
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Light's criteria (protein and LDH) have been used to the present to differentiate exudative pleural effusion from transudative. This is both time consuming and relatively more expensive as compared to measuring cholesterol. During 1992-1993, a prospective study on 70 patients with effusion was carried out measuring fasting LDH, protein, cholesterol, alkaline phosphatase and glucose. All pa...
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OBJECTIVE Angiopoietins are involved in the pathogenesis of a variety of human diseases. We tried to evaluate the application of pleural and serum Angiopoietin-1 and 2 in categorizing pleural effusions (PEs) into exudates and transudates in children. METHODS Pleural fluid (PF) and serum Angiopoietin (Ang)-1 and Ang-2 were measured in 80 children with PEs (40 transudative and 40 exudative) by ...
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STUDY OBJECTIVE To determine the usefulness of modifying Light's criteria for the separation of pleural transudates from exudates. DESIGN Retrospective review of patients who underwent a diagnostic thoracentesis during a 2-year period. SETTING Community teaching hospital in Lleida, Spain. PATIENTS AND METHODS Clinical records and pleural fluid characteristics of 230 consecutive patients w...
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Abstract Background: At present, differentiation between exudative and transudative pleural effusion is based solely on laboratory measures and is time-consuming. Asimple bedside method would be of great help to differentiate between these two types of effusions. We present a new method for this purpose assessed in 46 patients. Methods: Standard laboratory tests and our method were tested...
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عنوان ژورنال: International Journal of Advances in Medicine
سال: 2017
ISSN: 2349-3933,2349-3925
DOI: 10.18203/2349-3933.ijam20171041