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Efficacy of pleural fluid alkaline phosphatase and its ratio to serum levels in distinguishing exudates from transudates

Lung India, 2004
The objective of present study was to evaluate the efficacy of pleural fluid alkaline phosphatase and its ratio to serum levels to classify pleural fluids. A total of 80 patients were divided in transudates and exudates on the basis of extensive clinical,
Gupta K, Ghalaut Veena, Gupta Prem, Arora Puneet, Tandon S   +4 more
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Comparative analysis of Light's criteria and other biochemical parameters for distinguishing transudates from exudates

Respiratory Medicine, 1998
OBJECTIVES To compare the accuracy of Light's criteria for categorizing a pleural effusion as an exudate with several alternative criteria. DESIGN Prospective evaluation of patients who underwent a diagnostic thoracocentesis.
I Gázquez, José M. Porcel, Manuel Vives, M.C. Vicente de Vera, Manuel Rubio, M C Rivas   +5 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
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Transudate

, 2014
Jeremy Jones
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TRANSUDATE, BUT NOT CLEAR: A CASE OF BILATERAL TRANSUDATIVE CHYLOTHORACES [PDF]

CHEST
LUCIE GRIFFIN, SARA L LUTZ, ISHAN PATEL
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Diagnostic Accuracy with Total Adenosine Deaminase as a Biomarker for Discriminating Pleural Transudates and Exudates in a Population-Based Cohort Study

Disease Markers, 2021
Background An initial step in the evaluation of patients with pleural effusion syndrome (PES) is to determine whether the pleural fluid is a transudate or an exudate.
B. Maranhão, Cyro Teixeira da Silva Junior, Jorge Luiz Barillo, Carmem Lúcia Teixeira de Castro, Joeber Bernardo Soares de Souza, Patricia Siqueira Silva, R. Stirbulov   +6 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Use of the Hounsfield unit scale in differentiating transudate and exudate in pleural effusion in the emergency department. [PDF]

Medicine (Baltimore)
Işik Nİ, Özkan E, Uçgun A, Turan ÖF, Dönmez S, Yavuz Y, Katipoğlu B, Beştemir A.   +7 more
europepmc   +2 more sources

Bacterial Infection Elicits Heat Shock Protein 72 Release from Pleural Mesothelial Cells [PDF]

, 2013
Heat shock protein 70 (HSP70) has been implicated in infection-related processes and has been found in body fluids during infection. This study aimed to determine whether pleural mesothelial cells release HSP70 in response to bacterial infection in vitro
Bielsa, S, Brown, JS, Creaney, J, della Vergiliana, JFV, Lansley, SM, Lee, YCG, Porcel, JM, Temple, SEL, Waterer, GW   +8 more
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Elevated Nitrite/Nitrate Ratio as a Potential Biomarker for the Differential Diagnosis of Pleural Effusions

Antioxidants, 2022
Pleural effusions (PEs) are common in clinical practice and can be due to many different underlying diseases such as cancer, congestive heart failure, or pneumonia.
Mu-Rong Chao, Yuan-Jhe Chang, Ying-Ming Shih, Jian-Lian Chen, Cheng-Chieh Yen, Chiung-Wen Hu   +5 more
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Light’s Criteria Versus Costa’s Criteria in Differentiating Transudative & Exudative Pleural Effusions [PDF]

Journal of Cardio-Thoracic Medicine, 2023
Introduction: Aim of this study is to compare COSTA’S and LIGHT’S criteria in identifying exudative from transudative pleural effusions.Materials & Methods: A prospective study that is hospital-based was conducted at GHCCD, during Jan 2017 to August 2018
Padmaja Balla, Koyyana Preethi, Kanakalakshmi K, Vishnu Chaitanya   +3 more
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