OBJECTIVES To achieve UNAIDS 90-90-90 targets, alternatives to conventional HIV testing models are necessary in South Africa to increase population awareness of their HIV status. One of the alternatives is oral mucosal transudates-based HIV self-testing (OralST). This study describes implementation of counsellor-introduced supervised OralST in a high HIV prevalent rural area. METHODS Cross-se...

 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...

Paracetamol is the most widely used and prescribed drug word-wide. It common cause of poisoning fatality due to toxic administration throughout world. A 34-year-old female patient applied our ED with complaint swallowing 33 g paracetamol. After routine toxicity treatment, on third day hospitalization, dyspnea pain right hemithorax flank occurred. Chest X-ray showed blunted sinus. CT revealed bi...

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...

Weech and collaborators10 confirmed the formula in 1933. In 1934 Nugent5 demonstrated that the partial specific gravities of albumin and globulin are practically identical. Weech and collaborators' in 1936 worked out formulae by means of which the protein content of plasma, serum, and transudate could be determined from their respective specific gravities. The Barbour and Hamilton1 falling-drop...

Oral fluids, including saliva, gingival crevicular fluid, and mucosal transudates have been widely used for monitoring drugs, hormones, and a variety of other molecules and chemical substances for over 50 years (34, 35, 53, 54, 68). During the past decade, the use of oral fluids also has been advocated as a noninvasive alternative to the collection of blood for the detection of antibodies to a ...

Background: Pleural effusion is a clinical condition that manifestation of various aetiologies and pathologies. The vary in different geographical areas age groups. goal this study was to evaluate the aetiological spectrum patients with pleural presenting Department TB & Respiratory Medicine. Materials methods: 120 were involved current which detection has been done based on history, physic...

After an uneventful pregnancy and perinatal period, the second child of healthy nonconsanguineous parents was admitted at the age of 6 weeks because of failure to thrive. On physical examination, he had massive ascites and splenomegaly. He had mild normochrome anemia (hemoglobin, 5.4 mmol/L; normal, >5.9 mmol/L); blood smear and platelet count were normal, as were liver function tests. Screenin...

Magnetic nanoclusters (MNCs) were synthesized in a one-pot process, carboxylic MNCs and dual-functional protein were prepared and used to capture hepatitis B virus surface antibodies (anti-HBs) in simulated diseased oral mucosal transudate (OMT) samples. The specific substrate of dual-functional protein, dual-labeled double-chained DNA molecules, based on Fluorescence Resonance Energy Transfer ...