Combined pleural fluid cholesterol and total protein in differentiation of exudates and transudates.
Indian journal of chest diseases & allied sciences, 2022 BACKGROUND The management strategy to be adopted in pleural effusion depends on whether an effusion is a transudate or exudate. OBJECTIVE To evaluate the usefulness of pleural fluid cholesterol and/or total protein measurements for differentiating ...
Anand K. Patel, S. Choudhury
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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 +2 more
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Chylothorax in the Setting of Lung Malignancy
Journal of Investigative Medicine High Impact Case Reports, 2023 Chylothorax refers to chyle within the pleural space, which frequently arises from an interruption in the thoracic duct or because of reduced lymphatic drainage.
Avinash Vangara MD +5 more
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Warm inflation in the light of swampland criteria [PDF]
Physical Review D, 2019 Warm Inflation seems to be the most befitting single-field slow-roll inflation scenario in the context of the recently proposed Swampland Criteria. We investigate the constraints these Swampland Criteria impose on Warm Inflation parameters and show that Warm Inflation is in accordance with both the current cosmological observations and the proposed ...
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Transudative pleural effusion of malignant etiology: Rare but real
Respiratory Medicine Case Reports, 2017 A 62-year-old female presented to the emergency room with one-month history of epigastric abdominal pain, nausea and vomiting. She endorsed progressive dyspnea over two weeks.
Lindsey Johnson, MD +4 more
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Association of Light’s Criteria with Pleural Fluid Procalcitonin Levels and Ultrasound Thorax with its Impact on the Management of Pleural Effusion: A Cross-sectional Study [PDF]
Journal of Clinical and Diagnostic ResearchIntroduction: Pleural effusion, the abnormal accumulation of fluid in the pleural space, affects around 1.5 million people every year. Light’s criteria is routinely employed to distinguish between transudative and exudative effusions based on the test ...
BK Likhitha +2 more
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Transudative chylothorax in a liver cirrhosis patient: A case report
Respiratory Medicine Case Reports, 2022 Chylothorax defines chyle in the pleural space, usually from defects in thoracic duct. Chylothoraces are usually exudative, as defined by light's criteria but in rare instances, chylothoraces can be transudative.
Rose Nganga +4 more
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The Use of Thoracic Ultrasound to Predict Transudative and Exudative Pleural Effusion
POCUS Journal, 2021 Objectives: Pleural effusion is a common reason for hospital admission with thoracentesis often required to diagnose an underlying cause. This study aimed to determine if the imaging characteristics of TUS effectively differentiates between transudative
Peter T. Evans +6 more
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Drainage and analysis of suprachoroidal fluid in a patient with acute systemic lupus erythematous
American Journal of Ophthalmology Case Reports, 2017 Purpose: To describe a case of a patient with acute systemic lupus erythematous (SLE) causing choroidal effusions and to report a novel technique for evaluation of the choroidal fluid which sheds light on effusion pathogenesis.
James A. Stefater +2 more
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Pleural fluid serum bilirubin ratio for differentiating exudative and transudative effusions
Journal of Nepal Medical Association, 2018 Background: In pleural effusion, differentiating exudative and transudative fluid is an important clinical evaluation. The objective of the study was to determine the efficacy of pleural fluid serum bilirubin ratio in differentiating exudative and ...
Pawan Agrawal +4 more
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