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Accuracy of interleukin-27 assay for the diagnosis of tuberculous pleurisy

Medicine, 2017
Background: The concentration of interleukin-27 (IL-27) in pleural effusions was found to be increased in tuberculous pleurisy and several studies have investigated the diagnostic value of IL-27 for tuberculous pleural effusions (TPEs), but the results ...
Min Li, Wenye Zhu, Rana Sami Ullah Khan, Ummair Saeed, Rongchun Wang, Shaoqing Shi, Zhuang Luo   +6 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Risk Factors and Clinical Features of Deterioration in 739 COVID‐19 Affected Children Aged Under 14 Years in Zhuhai, China: A Multicenter, Retrospective Study

Pediatric Discovery, Volume 3, Issue 2, June 2025.
Seven hundred and thirty‐nine children infected with SARS‐CoV‐2 in Zhuhai tend to have close‐contact aggregated morbidity within the family, with fever and cough as the main manifestations. Low age, underlying disease, some laboratory indicators, and patchy exudative changes on CT of the lungs are the windsocks of the severity of the infection ...
Ting Liu, Zhaojun Pan, Cheng Zhang, Fanlin Huang, Jundong Ding, Wenxiu Song, Yongwu Xie, Guang Lin   +7 more
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Comparative characteristics of tuberculous pleurisy depending on HIV status

Туберкулез и болезни лёгких, 2016
Goal of the study: to study specific manifestations of tuberculous pleurisy in HIV patients, to evaluate the efficiency of video-assisted thoracoscopy when diagnosing tuberculous pleurisy in case of different HIV status of the patients.Materials and ...
E. V. Korzh, D. S. Miroshnichenko
doaj   +1 more source

Diagnosis of tuberculous pleurisy with combination of adenosine deaminase and interferon-γ immunospot assay in a tuberculosis-endemic population

Medicine, 2017
The aim of this study was to identify the optimal cut-off value of T cell enzyme-linked immunospot assay for tuberculosis (T-SPOT.TB) and evaluate its diagnostic performance alone (in the peripheral blood) or in combination with the adenosine deaminase ...
Hanyan Xu, Cheng-ye Li, S. Su, Li Yang, Min Ye, Junru Ye, P. Ke, Cheng-Shui Chen, Yu-peng Xie, Yu-ping Li   +9 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Psittacosis in Focus: A Review Addressing the Risks and Management Challenges in Outbreak Scenarios

Health Science Reports, Volume 8, Issue 5, May 2025.
ABSTRACT Background and Aim Psittacosis is a zoonotic disease that mostly affects birds and can infect people. It causes respiratory ailments that can be minor or severe. The disease's importance to public health is shown by the fact that it has been connected to isolated outbreaks in several parts of the world.
Himel Ghosh, Sejuti Reza, Md. Abdul Mazid, Syed Masudur Rahman Dewan   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Clinical Features of Nontuberculous Mycobacterial Pleurisy: A Review of 12 Cases

Internal medicine, 2017
Objective The incidence of pulmonary nontuberculous mycobacterial (NTM) infections has increased in recent decades. Nevertheless, NTM pleurisy is still a rare disease. The objective of the present study was to elucidate the clinical features and outcomes
M. Naito, Toshiya Maekura, Y. Kurahara, M. Tahara, Naoya Ikegami, Yohei Kimura, S. Sonobe, Takehiko Kobayashi, S. Minomo, T. Tsuji, K. Tsuyuguchi, S. Hayashi, Katsuhiro Suzuki   +12 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Rapidly Progressing Renal Cell Carcinoma With Unexpected Inferior Vena Cava Tumor Thrombus

IJU Case Reports, Volume 8, Issue 3, Page 236-239, May 2025.
ABSTRACT Introduction We report here a case of RCC without preoperative tumor thrombus that had progressed to RCC with IVC tumor thrombus. Case Presentation A 75‐year‐old man was referred to our hospital. Contrast‐enhanced CT showed a 50‐mm mass in the right kidney with an indistinct border, contrast in the early phase and washout in the late phase ...
Sohei Iwagami, Masaya Nishihata, Shimpei Yamashita, Isao Hara, Fumiyoshi Kojima, Yasuo Kohjimoto   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source

THE ORGANIZATON AND PRINCIPLES OF DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS OF TUBERCULOSIS AND PARAPNEUMONIC EXUDATIVE TUBERCULOUS PLEURISY

Туберкулез и болезни лёгких, 2014
The etiological pattern of pleural effusions was studied, by analyzing the computed database on 11,272 patients examined and treated at the specialized Pleural Pathology Department of the Voronezh Regional Tuberculosis Oncology in 1979-2012.
N. A. Stogova, A. I. Pecherskikh, T. I. Maslennikova, I. N. Timoshenko   +3 more
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Patent Urachus and Associated Comorbidities in 101 Newborn Foals: A Retrospective Study

Veterinary Medicine and Science, Volume 11, Issue 3, May 2025.
The main result of this study was that patent urachus had a limited statistical influence on clinical parameters, laboratory values and prognosis. Comorbidities and/or sequelae worsen the prognosis in the clinic. ABSTRACT Background Patent urachus is a common disease in newborn foals.
André Bernick, Judith Krohn, Axel Wehrend   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Immune response to Mycobacterium tuberculosis infection in the parietal pleura of patients with tuberculous pleurisy.

PLoS ONE, 2011
The T lymphocyte-mediated immune response to Mycobacterium tuberculosis infection in the parietal pleura of patients with tuberculous pleurisy is unknown.
Gaetano Caramori, Lisa Lasagna, Angelo G Casalini, Ian M Adcock, Paolo Casolari, Marco Contoli, Federica Tafuro, Anna Padovani, Kian Fan Chung, Peter J Barnes, Alberto Papi, Guido Rindi, Giuseppina Bertorelli   +12 more
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