Interpreting pleural fluid results [PDF]
Clinical Medicine, 2019 Interpreting pleural fluid results correctly requires an awareness of the possible aetiologies of a pleural effusion and an understanding of the reliability of the outcome of each investigation. All results must be interpreted within each different clinical context and knowledge of the pitfalls for each test is necessary when the diagnosis is unclear ...
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Pleural Fluid Analysis in Neutropenia. [PDF]
Ann Am Thorac Soc, 2022 ABSTRACTLight’s criteria is the standard for determining the etiology of pleural effusions. Test characteristics of Light’s criteria varies in different populations, and Light’s criteria may misclassify effusions in patients with impaired immunity such as in neutropenia.
Budnick IM +3 more
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Pleural Fluid Resolution Is Associated with Improved Survival in Patients with Malignant Pleural Effusion [PDF]
Life, 2023 Malignant pleural effusion is associated with a poor prognosis and, while risk stratification models exist, prior studies have not evaluated pleural fluid resolution and its association with survival.
Christina R. MacRosty +5 more
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BMC Pulmonary Medicine, 2018 Background We aimed to determine the presepsin concentration in pleural fluid from patients with pleural effusions of different aetiologies and to compare its diagnostic value with that of pleural fluid C-reactive protein (CRP) and procalcitonin (PCT ...
Naoki Watanabe +9 more
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Penetration of Cefazolin into Pleural Fluid [PDF]
Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy, 1977 Single doses of cefazolin, 500 mg intramuscularly and 1 g intravenously, were administered to 16 patients having lung pathology who were scheduled for thoracic fluid aspiration. Pleural fluid and serum samples were taken at intervals of 30 to 240 min for determination of cefazolin levels.
Donald R. Cole, Juanito Pung
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Clinical overview of the physiology and pathophysiology of pleural fluid movement: a narrative review [PDF]
ERJ Open ResearchIn physiological conditions, the pleural space couples the lung with the chest wall and contains a small amount of fluid in continuous turnover. The volume of pleural fluid is the result from the balance between the entry of fluid through the pleural ...
Lucía Ferreiro +4 more
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Interferon-gamma release assay performance of pleural fluid and peripheral blood in pleural tuberculosis. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2013 BACKGROUND: The diagnosis of pleural tuberculosis (TB) remains to be difficult. Interferon-gamma release assay (IGRA) is a promising method for diagnosing TB in low TB burden countries.
Fei Liu +11 more
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Utilizing thoracic ultrasonography in determining the characteristics of pleural fluid: Development of a novel sonographic scoring system [PDF]
Annals of Thoracic MedicineBACKGROUND: To evaluate the utility of thoracic ultrasound imaging (USI) in assessing the nature of pleural fluid (PF) using a scoring system. METHODS: The files of patients who underwent thoracic USI and thoracentesis due to PF accumulation were ...
Sükran Mutlu +2 more
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Pleural fluid agitation for improving the microbiologic diagnostic yield in pleural infection: a feasibility study [PDF]
Respiratory ResearchBackground Pleural infection is a commonly encountered respiratory disease but in > 40% the underlying microbiologic etiology is unknown. This feasibility study aims to investigate whether pleural fluid agitation prior to sample aspiration is safe and ...
Ahmed Sadaka +4 more
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Pleural Fluid Cholesterol in Differentiating Exudative and Transudative Pleural Effusion
Pulmonary Medicine, 2013 Objectives. To study the diagnostic value of pleural fluid cholesterol in differentiating transudative and exudative pleural effusion. To compare pleural fluid cholesterol level for exudates with Light’s criteria. Design.
A. B. Hamal +4 more
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