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Is pulmonary embolism associated with pleural transudates, exudates, or both?
Spanish Journal of Medicine, 2021 Introduction and objectives: Whether pleural effusions (PEs) secondary to pulmonary embolism can be exudative or transudative is controversial. This study aims to determine which type of effusion (exudate or transudate) is typically associated with ...
José M. Porcel +3 more
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Türk Biyokimya Dergisi, 2023 We aimed to investigate the usability of pleural pyruvate kinase (PK), total antioxidant status (TAS), and total oxidant status (TOS) as an alternative to Light’s criteria in exudate-transudate differentiation.
Dumanlı Ahmet +10 more
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Role of CRP as a marker for discrimination of exudative and transudative pleural effusion
Monaldi Archives for Chest Disease, 2022 Differentiation between exudative and transudative pleural effusion is sometime problematic. This study aimed to evaluate the diagnostic value of C-reactive protein (CRP) in differentiation of exudative and transudative pleural effusion.
Omid Rismantab +4 more
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Medical Sciences, 2023 Persistent pleural effusions (PPEf) represent a known complication of orthotopic liver transplant (OLT). However, their clinical relevance is not well described.
Bhavesh H. Patel +9 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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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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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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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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The 'Starry Sky' in Tuberculoma [PDF]
Journal of Microbiology and Infectious Diseases, 2017 A 27 year old lady was admitted with high-grade fever, severe headache along with dry-cough and she was being treated for neurocysticercosis on basis of ‘starry sky’ pattern on her magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) of brain.
Shinjan Patra, Partha Pratim Chakraborty, Gouranga Santra
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