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Efficacy of CT in diagnosis of transudates and exudates in patients with pleural effusion [PDF]

Diagnostic and Interventional Radiology, 2014
PURPOSE:We aimed to evaluate the efficacy of multidetector computed tomography (CT) imaging in diagnosis of pleural exudates and transudates using attenuation values. MATERIALS AND METHODS:This retrospective study included 106 patients who were diagnosed
Neşat Çullu, Serdar Kalemci, Ömer Karakaş, İrfan Eser, Funda Yalçın, Fatıma Nurefşan Boyacı, Ekrem Karakaş   +6 more
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The Diagnosis between Exudates and Transudates [PDF]

The American Journal of The Medical Sciences, 1914
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A comparative study of serum effusion albumin gradient and Light's criteria to differentiate exudative and transudative pleural effusion

Journal of Family Medicine and Primary Care, 2020
Context: The incidence of pleural effusion is approximately one million per year. For diagnosing and treatment plan, pleural effusions have to be classified into transudate and exudate.
V Sandeesha, Ch V Ravi Kiran, P Ushakiran, Md D Sulemani, N Lakshmanakumar   +4 more
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New criteria for the differentiation between transudates and exudates [PDF]

Journal of Clinical Pathology, 2002
To investigate whether cholesterol and lactate dehydrogenase (LDH) measurements in fluids are more sensitive and specific markers for differentiating between exudates and transudates, as confirmed clinically, than the measurement of fluid total protein concentrations alone.Serum, pleural fluid, and ascitic fluid from 61 unselected patients were ...
N S, Paramothayan, J, Barron
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Does the evaluation of coagulation factors contribute to etiological diagnosis of pleural effusions?

Clinics, 2009
OBJECTIVE: The aim of this study was to identify the participation of the coagulation system in the differential diagnosis of pleural effusions. INTRODUCTION: Imbalance between immunologic and metabolic factors triggers a sequence of events resulting in ...
Marcelo Alexandre Costa Vaz, Francisco Suso Vargas, Felipe Costa de Andrade Marinho, Élbio Antonio D'Amico, Tânia Rubia Flores Rocha, Lisete Ribeiro Teixeira   +5 more
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Significance of hyperprolactinemia for cytomorphologic features of breast secretions [PDF]

Vojnosanitetski Pregled, 2010
Background/Aim. Nipple discharge syndrome is a clinical entity capable of presenting various disorders such is mammary infection (nonpuerperal and puerperal mastitis), intraductal papillomas, fibrodenoma, breast cancer and hyperprolactinemia syndrome ...
Radojković Danijela, Antić Slobodan, Pešić Milica, Radojković Milan, Bašić Dijana, Rađenović-Petković Tatjana, Radenković Saša, Ilić Ivan   +7 more
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Congestive heart failure is the leading cause of pleural effusion in the north-west of Iran [PDF]

Journal of Cardiovascular and Thoracic Research, 2019
Introduction: Pleural effusion (PE) is a common manifestation of pulmonary and non–pulmonary diseases, and the first step for diagnosing the etiology is analysis of pleural fluid.
Masoud Nazemiyeh, Amirhossein Dorraji, Masoud Nouri-Vaskeh, Akbar Sharifi   +3 more
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Pleural Effusion: Characterization With contrast CT Appearance and CT Attenuation Values

مجلة كلية الطب, 2014
Background: A number of different types of fluid may accumulate in the pleural space, the most common being transudate, exudate (thin or thick), blood and chyle.
Ali H. Jasim, Qusai A. Fahad, Jinan A. Jabbar   +2 more
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Diagnostic Performance of the Cancer Ratio in Malignant Pleural Effusion in Combination with the Light’s Criteria

Acta Médica Portuguesa
The cancer ratio (CR), defined as serum lactate dehydrogenase to pleural fluid adenosine deaminase ratio (sLDH/pADA), has emerged as a diagnostic marker for malignant pleural effusion (MPE).
Maria João Cavaco, Sofia Fontão Alves, Catarina Silva, Sofia Pimentel, Luís Mateus, Carina Rôlo Silvestre, Joana Ferra, Daniel Duarte, Carla Cardoso, Paula Raimundo, Teresa Falcão   +10 more
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Validity of pleural lactate dehydrogenase measurements in assessment of pleural effusions

Universa Medicina, 2015
Background Pleural effusions are classified into transudates and exudates based on Light’s criteria, but the main disadvantage of Light’s criteria is the misclassification of transudates as exudates in about 20% of cases.
Elisna Syahruddin, Lia G. Partakusuma, Rita Khairani   +2 more
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