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Pleural fluid refractometry. [PDF]

Lung India
Flores-Franco RA, Flores-Aguilar DR.
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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 ...
Mercer, RM, Corcoran, JP, Porcel, JM, Rahman, NM, Psallidas, I   +4 more
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Differentiation of Cardiac from Noncardiac Pleural Effusions in Cats using Second‐Generation Quantitative and Point‐of‐Care NT‐proBNP Measurements [PDF]

Journal of Veterinary Internal Medicine, 2016
Background Pleural effusion is a common cause of dyspnea in cats. N‐terminal pro‐B‐type natriuretic peptide (NT‐proBNP) measurement, using a first‐generation quantitative ELISA, in plasma and pleural fluid differentiates cardiac from noncardiac causes of
M.J. Hezzell, J.E. Rush, K. Humm, E.A. Rozanski, J. Sargent, D.J. Connolly, A. Boswood, M.A. Oyama   +7 more
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The usefulness of pleural fluid presepsin, C-reactive protein, and procalcitonin in distinguishing different causes of pleural effusions

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, Tomoya Ishii, Nobuyuki Kita, Nobuhiro Kanaji, Hiroyuki Nakamura, Nobuki Nanki, Yutaka Ueda, Yasunori Tojo, Norimitsu Kadowaki, Shuji Bandoh   +9 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, Mengqiu Gao, Xia Zhang, Fengjiao Du, Hongyan Jia, Xinting Yang, Zitong Wang, Liqun Zhang, Liping Ma, Xiaoguang Wu, Li Xie, Zongde Zhang   +11 more
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Clinical overview of the physiology and pathophysiology of pleural fluid movement: a narrative review [PDF]

ERJ Open Research
In 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, María E. Toubes, Juan Suárez-Antelo, Nuria Rodríguez-Núñez, Luis Valdés   +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, K. N. Yogi, N. Bam, S. K. Das, R. Karn   +4 more
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Effects of Light’s criteria on the diagnostic accuracy of pleural fluid carcinoembryonic antigen concentrations for malignant pleural effusion [PDF]

Scientific Reports
The pleural fluid carcinoembryonic antigen (CEA) test is a diagnostic tool for malignant pleural effusion (MPE). Light’s criteria are an important method for the differential diagnosis of pleural effusion. This study aimed to analyze the effects of Light’
Dan-Ni Yang, Ya-Nan Xu, Yan Niu, Jian-Xun Wen, Li Yan, Wei Jiao, Wen-Qi Zheng, Ting-Wang Jiang, Zhi-De Hu   +8 more
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Analyzing pleural fluid attributes in SARS-CoV-2 infection: a systematic review. [PDF]

J Thorac Dis
Soto-Feijóo R, Landín E, Martínez-Martínez H, Carreiras M, Fanego A, Ferreiro L, Rodríguez-Núñez N, Toubes ME, Valdés L.   +8 more
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Pleural Fluid [PDF]

Definitions, 2020
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