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Background/AimsThe diagnosis of spontaneous bacterial peritonitis (SBP) is based on a polymorphonuclear leukocytes (PMNs) exceeding 250/μL in ascitic fluid.
Ahmed Abdel-Razik +8 more
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Dissimilar tumor cell populations in ascitic fluid of ovarian cancer patients
Ovarian cancer is one of the most aggressive and hard-to-treat cancers. About 75% of ovarian cancer cases are detected at later stages of the disease.
E. V. Kaigorodova +5 more
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Purpose of reviewIntestinal tuberculosis (TB) is increasing due partly to the HIV pandemic. Its clinical presentation mimics inflammatory conditions such as Crohn's disease and malignancies, which are becoming more prevalent, so the diagnosis is ...
Donoghue, HD, Holton, J
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Prostate-Specific Antigen in Ascitic Fluid [PDF]
Although previously thought to be produced almost exclusively by the epithelial cells of the prostate (1), prostate-specific antigen (PSA) is produced and secreted by several extraprostatic sources (2)(3). Considering the high degree of homology of PSA with the human glandular kallikrein (hKGK1) (4)(5) and the activation of the kallikrein–kinin system ...
MANNELLO, FERDINANDO +3 more
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Extracorporal modified ascitic fluid reinfusion in treatment of resistant ascites in liver cirrhosis
OBJECTIVE. The aim of the study was to estimate the efficacy of new method of reinfusion of extracorporeal modified ascitic fluid in therapy of diuretic resistance ascites in patients with liver cirrhosis and portal hypertension syndrome.
I. E. Onnintsev +4 more
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Levels of feline infectious peritonitis virus in blood, effusions, and various tissues and the role of lymphopenia in disease outcome following experimental infection. [PDF]
Twenty specific pathogen free cats were experimentally infected with a virulent cat-passaged type I field strain of FIPV. Eighteen cats succumbed within 2-4 weeks to effusive abdominal FIP, one survived for 6 weeks, and one seroconverted without outward ...
Eckstrand, Chrissy +4 more
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Objectives Peritoneal tuberculosis can mimic advanced abdominal malignancy. We describe clinical and laboratory characteristics in a series of female patients with peritoneal tuberculosis who were referred to a tertiary cancer center with a diagnosis of ...
Amita Maheshwari +11 more
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The severe heterogeneity of ovarian carcinomas on the molecular genetic level is associated with the absence of specific markers of chemoresistance. At the same time, ascites is an attractive biomarker detection fluid because it is easily obtained.
A. B. Villert +2 more
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Background. Peritoneal carcinomatosis (PC) is one of the most unfavorable factors of ovarian cancer progression. It is often accompanied by accumulation of fluid in the abdominal cavity, which is called ascites.
E. V. Kaigorodova +8 more
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Uncoupling agent of oxidative phosphorylation from ascitic fluid of tumor bearing mice after X-irradiation [PDF]
It was investigated to clarify the relationship between the composition of the lipid fractions obtained from the ascitic fluid of Ehrlich ascites tumor bearing mice and its uncoupling activity after whole body irradiation (1,000 r). 1.
Inaba, Kozo
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