Pleural effusion is not uncommon in developing countries. It is usually considered to be due to tuberculosis and treated with anti-tubercular chemotherapy without much diagnostic workup. Hepatic vena cava disease (HVD), a disease caused by obliterative lesion of the hepatic portion of inferior vena cava induced by bacterial infection is common in developing countries. We report here the occurre...

Pericardial effusion can develop from any pericardial disease, including pericarditis and several systemic disorders, such as malignancies, pulmonary tuberculosis, chronic renal failure, thyroid diseases, and autoimmune diseases. The causes of large pericardial effusion requiring invasive pericardiocentesis may vary according to the time, country, and hospital. Transthoracic echocardiography is...

Joint effusion has been associated with temporomandibular joint (TMJ) pain but can only be diagnosed by magnetic resonance imaging (MRI). For screening of patients with suspected effusion a simple and less expensive method would be desirable. We recorded joint sounds during jaw opening and closing movement from 34 TMJs with internal derangement (ID). Seventeen joints had joint effusion seen on ...

OBJECTIVES To describe haemorrhagic pleural effusion as a rare complication of brucellosis that finally needed lung decortication. CLINICAL PRESENTATION AND INTERVENTION A 37-year-old female presented with a 1-week history of fever, dry cough and pleuritic chest pain. Physical examination showed signs of right pleural effusion and hepatosplenomegaly. Complete blood count showed pancytopenia, ...

The aim of this study is to assess the diagnostic level of Ferroxidase activity of ceruloplasmin in tuberculousserosal effusion. The study was carried out on 50 patients suffering from tuberculous pleural and peritoneal effusion and 50 patients suffering from nontuberculous pleural and peritoneal effusion. Mean ± SD of ferroxidase in tuberculous pleural effusion was 1042 ± 112 IU/L and the sens...

Antiphospholipid syndrome (APS) with pleural effusion is extremely rare. A 75-year-old man was admitted to our hospital for spreading erythema on his trunk and extremities, as well as dyspnea. One year before admission, he had visited us with a 1-year history of erythema and purpura on his legs and occasional fever. Given the diagnosis of APS, we initiated a combination therapy of aspirin and w...

0bjective:To provide information on research investigating the relationship between a knee effusion and quadriceps inhibition. Data Sources: Peer-reviewed publications from 1965 to 1997 that investigated the effect of a knee effusion on quadriceps strength. Study Selection: The studies reviewed involved human subjects. Researchers have used active motion, electromyographic equipment, and isokin...

A variable selection procedure is developed for a semi-competing risks regression model with three hazard functions that uses spike-and-slab priors and stochastic search variable selection algorithms for posterior inference. A rule is devised for choosing the threshold on the marginal posterior probability of variable inclusion based on the Deviance Information Criterion (DIC) that is examined ...

Introduction: It has been shown that joint click, an initial and common finding in internal derangement (ID), respond to neither conservative treatment nor surgical intervention. This raises the question as to whether it must be treated in the absence of other pertinent signs and symptoms, so the aim of this study was to investigate and compare the MRI findings of TMJ in both normal subjects an...