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Gingivocrevicular transudate for HIV screening [PDF]
Clinical Microbiology and Infection, 1997 Producción Científica The use of saliva as an alternative biological fluid to serum in diagnosis or screening of infectious diseases by antibody detection has been the main subject of several articles in the last few years [1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6]. Saliva samples can be obtained simply, without specialized personnel, and the process is non-traumatic for the ...
Martínez, Prudencio +3 more
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Chylothorax with Transudate: An Unusual Presentation of Tuberculosis [PDF]
European Journal of Case Reports in Internal Medicine, 2020 Introduction: Twenty-five per cent of tuberculosis patients have pleural tuberculosis, which is the third most common form of presentation. Most cases present as an exudative pleural effusion with just few cases reported as chylothorax in the literature.
Miguel Angel Zamora-López +2 more
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Cukurova Medical Journal, 2020 The association between heart failure and phantom tumor has been well known for years. Because drainage mechanism exists in parietal pleura, phantom tumors generally localize between fissures. Loculated transudate in peripheral lung areas is extremely rare.
Uğur GÖNLÜGÜR +2 more
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Monaldi Archives for Chest DiseaseAs a new parameter, the C-reactive protein (CRP)/albumin ratio (CAR) has been shown to be more accurate than CRP and albumin alone in predicting the diagnosis and overall prognosis in cancer, sepsis, and vascular and non-vascular conditions.
Ayshan Mammadova +3 more
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Lung India, 2015 Background: Differentiating into transudate or exudate is the first step in the evaluation of effusions. Light′s criteria is the standard but a significant number of transudates may not be differentiated based on these criteria. Acute phase proteins (APP)
Girish K Shanthaveeranna +2 more
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Lymphangitic Carcinomatosis as a Cause of Malignant Transient Pleural Transudate [PDF]
Case Reports in Medicine, 2009 Although it is generally accepted that a malignant transient pleural transudate may appear during the early stages of lymphatic obstruction, cases demonstrating such probability are rare in literature. A 67-year-old woman was admitted to hospital because
Raquel Garcia Sevila +4 more
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Differentiation of Exudates from Transudate Pleural Effusion by Measuring Cholesterol and Bilirubin
Armaghane Danesh Bimonthly Journal, 2007 Introduction & Objective: Differentiating exudates from transudate is the first step in examining pleural effusion. Moreover, it is a guide for determination of pathologic trend of background diseases and differential diagnosis.
B Ataei +3 more
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Role of interleukin-6 in diagnosis of pleural effusion
Egyptian Journal of Chest Disease and Tuberculosis, 2016 Objectives: To determine the level of interleukin-6 (IL-6) in both serum and pleural fluid in order to evaluate the diagnostic utility of IL-6 in differentiation between different types of pleural effusion.
Mohamed A. Zamzam +4 more
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J Gen Fam MedAn 84‐year‐old woman with pleural effusion developed anterior chest pain during thoracentesis, and post‐procedural chest radiography revealed hydropneumothorax, initially suggesting iatrogenic pneumothorax. However, comparison of pre‐ and post‐procedure imaging showed ipsilateral hemithoracic volume loss with tracheal deviation toward the procedure ...
Ito Y.
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Use of the Hounsfield unit scale in differentiating transudate and exudate in pleural effusion in the emergency department. [PDF]
Medicine (Baltimore)Attenuation values in computed tomography (CT) are used as a diagnostic aid in certain clinical conditions. In our study, we investigated the effectiveness of attenuation values, obtained through the noninvasive method of CT, in determining the type of ...
Işik Nİ +7 more
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