BACKGROUND Spontaneous bacterial peritonitis (SBP) is a common and important clinical problem and is life-threatening in decompensated liver disease. Ascites fluid test by leukocyte esterase test strip has been recently proposed as an effective and rapid method to diagnose SBP in patients with cirrhosis. OBJECTIVES This study aimed to evaluate sensitivity and specificity of leukocyte esterase...

Objective: To find out the efficiency of leukocyte esterase reagent strip (LERS) testing for diagnosis spontaneous bacterial peritonitis (SBP). Study Design: Cross Sectional, Validation study. Setting: Department Medicine, Unit-III, Bahawal Victoria Hospital, Bahawalpur. Period: January-December 2019. Material & Methods: A total 235 patients both gender, aged 18-60 years, having CLD with as...

Background: Spontaneous bacterial peritonitis (SBP) is one of the serious complexities in patients with cirrhosis and ascites. 30-50% death may occur if it not treated properly. The leucocyte esterase reagent (LER) strip test a special apparatus for prior detection neutrophils ascetic fluid. aim study was to investigate diagnostic accuracy LER platelet indices early SBP cirrhotic patients. Meth...

in the present study, the effect of intrauterine infusion of zataria multiflora extract on the clinical endometritis was investigated. vaginal examination, transrectal palpation and ultrasonography were used to inspect the genital tract at 30-40 days in milk and two weeks later the same approach was applied. cows with clinical endometritis were randomly divided into three treatment groups: z. m...

BACKGROUND Synovial fluid biomarkers have demonstrated diagnostic accuracy surpassing the currently used diagnostic tests for periprosthetic joint infection (PJI). QUESTIONS/PURPOSES The purpose of this study is to directly compare the sensitivity and specificity of the synovial fluid α-defensin immunoassay to the leukocyte esterase (LE) colorimetric test strip. METHODS Synovial fluid was c...

The results of a study of a screening test for urinary tract infection (UTI) in infants under 18 months is reported. Two hundred and forty three urine specimens were tested in the laboratory using AMES Multistix 8SG reagent strips read by photometer. The strips included three potential markers for urinary tract infection: leucocyte esterase, nitrite, and protein. The predictive value of a posit...