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Minoxidil-Associated Exudative Pleural Effusion
Southern Medical Journal, 2010Recurrent pleural effusions are associated with significant morbidity and mortality. Drug-related reactions causing pleural effusions are not common, but their identification can potentially improve patient outcome. Minoxidil has been implicated in pleuropericardial effusions in patients with chronic kidney disease. The exact mechanism by which pleural
Atif, Siddiqui +3 more
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Value of thoracoscopic pleural brush in the diagnosis of exudative pleural effusion [PDF]
The Egyptian Journal of Chest Diseases and Tuberculosis, 2012 BackgroundNowadays, medical thoracoscope had been established to have greater diagnostic yield in the diagnosis of exudative pleural effusion. Forceps biopsy and pleural brush could be used through medical thoracoscope to obtain pleural cytopathological ...
Yousef Ahmed
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Endostatin Levels in Exudative Pleural Effusions
Lung, 2003Endostatin is an angiogenesis inhibitor that is an endogenously produced proteolytic fragment of type XVIII collagen. Although serum levels of endostatin have extensively been studied in patients with malignant diseases, endostatin in pleural effusion has not been fully evaluated. In order to determine whether endostatin is present in pleural effusion,
M, Sumi +5 more
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Pleural Effusions: The Diagnostic Separation of Transudates and Exudates
Annals of Internal Medicine, 1972Abstract In this prospective study of 150 pleural effusions, the utility of pleural-fluid cell counts, protein levels, and lactic dehydrogenase (LDH) levels for the separation of transudates from e...
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Pleural fluid mesothelin for the differential diagnosis of exudative pleural effusions
Medicina Clínica, 2009Malignant mesothelioma (MM) is a highly aggressive tumor that can be difficult to diagnose, resulting in a delayed diagnosis in some cases. Recent studies have reported that determination of soluble mesothelin-related peptides (SMRP) in pleural fluid may be a promising marker for use in the diagnosis of MM.Pleural fluid SMRP concentration was measured ...
Carmen, Alemán +7 more
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Role of pleural viscosity in the differential diagnosis of exudative pleural effusion
Respirology, 2007Objective and background: Determining the aetiology of an effusion involves assessing if it is an exudate or a transudate. However, a reliable test for determining the aetiology of a pleural effusion is lacking. Pleural viscosity has a high sensitivity and specificity and a high positive and negative predictive value for discriminating exudative and ...
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Postgraduate Medicine, 1986
Based on the current literature, the following steps seem reasonable in evaluating a pleural effusion: document the presence, location, and approximate volume of pleural fluid; decide clinically on the likelihood of an exudative effusion; if clinical evaluation suggests an exudative effusion, perform a thoracentesis and obtain fluid for diagnostic ...
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Based on the current literature, the following steps seem reasonable in evaluating a pleural effusion: document the presence, location, and approximate volume of pleural fluid; decide clinically on the likelihood of an exudative effusion; if clinical evaluation suggests an exudative effusion, perform a thoracentesis and obtain fluid for diagnostic ...
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Pleural adenosine deaminase in the separation of transudative and exudative pleural effusions
Clinical Biochemistry, 2005The purpose of this study was to evaluate the usefulness of a new parameter, pleural adenosine deaminase (PADA), for separating transudative pleural effusion from exudative pleural effusion, and to compare the results with other tests (albumin gradient and protein gradient).From November 2001 to January 2003, 359 consecutive patients with pleural ...
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Fiberoptic thoracoscopy in management of exudative pleural effusion [PDF]
The Egyptian Journal of Chest Diseases and Tuberculosis, 2012 ObjectivesExudative pleural effusion represents a common diagnostic task to the clinician. The two commonest causes of exudative pleural effusion are parapneumonic followed by malignant ones.
Alaa El Din Ali Abdullah +9 more
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Exudative Pleural Effusions Secondary to Gastrointestinal Diseases
Clinics in Chest Medicine, 1985Several different diseases of the gastrointestinal tract may have an associated exudative pleural effusion. In the acutely ill patient with a pleural effusion, the possibility of esophageal perforation should always be considered. It is important to establish this diagnosis as soon as possible since the mortality rate increases markedly if drainage of ...
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