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Association of Light’s Criteria with Pleural Fluid Procalcitonin Levels and Ultrasound Thorax with its Impact on the Management of Pleural Effusion: A Cross-sectional Study [PDF]

Journal of Clinical and Diagnostic Research
Introduction: Pleural effusion, the abnormal accumulation of fluid in the pleural space, affects around 1.5 million people every year. Light’s criteria is routinely employed to distinguish between transudative and exudative effusions based on the test ...
BK Likhitha, Keertivardhan D Kulkarni, Madhav Mahawar   +2 more
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Role of Combined Pleural Fluid Cholesterol and Total Protein in Differentiation of Exudates and Transudates

Nepalese Medical Journal, 2020
Introduction: Light's criteria had been the standard method for distinguishing exudative and transudative pleural effusions which misidentify 15-20% of transudates as exudates.
Anupam Bista, Suman Thapa, Prasant Subedi, Kiran Manandhar   +3 more
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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, Eiros Bouza, José María, Ortiz de Lejarazu Leonardo, Raúl, Rodríguez Torres, Antonio   +3 more
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Pathophysiology of elevated ascites fluid cholesterol in malignant ascites [PDF]

, 1992
The existence of marked elevations of ascitic fluid cholesterol has been observed in patients with peritoneal carcinomatosis compared to patients with cirrhosis and has been found useful in differential diagnosis.
Alexander L. Gerbes, Caselmann, Conrad, Dieter Jüngst, Garrison, Gerbes, Henderson, Henriksen, Hirabayashi, Hoefs, Hoefs, Jüngst, Kerscher, Lifshitz, Loiudice, Lopes-Virella, Mortensen, Pare, Polak, Prieto, Romette, Rovelstad, Röschlau, Suzuki, Weichselbaum, Weisweiler, Witte, Yining Xie   +27 more
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The diagnostic role of glycosaminoglycans in pleural effusions: A pilot study [PDF]

, 2009
Background Pleural effusions are classified into transudates and exudates. Various criteria have been used with Light's et al being the most accepted ones.
Rozina Vavetsi, Stefanos Bonovas, Paraskevi Polizou, Chrysanthi Papanastasopoulou, Georgia Dougekou, Nikolaos M Sitaras   +5 more
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Use of pleural fluid ceruloplasmin in the differentiation of exudative and transudative pleural effusion

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, Vinod G Thykadavil, George A D′souza   +2 more
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A comparative study of serum effusion albumin gradient and Light's criteria to differentiate exudative and transudative pleural effusion

Journal of Family Medicine and Primary Care, 2020
Context: The incidence of pleural effusion is approximately one million per year. For diagnosing and treatment plan, pleural effusions have to be classified into transudate and exudate.
V Sandeesha, Ch V Ravi Kiran, P Ushakiran, Md D Sulemani, N Lakshmanakumar   +4 more
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Pleural fluid serum bilirubin ratio for differentiating exudative and transudative effusions

Journal of Nepal Medical Association, 2018
Background:  In pleural effusion, differentiating exudative and transudative fluid is an important clinical evaluation. The objective of the study was to determine the efficacy of pleural fluid serum bilirubin ratio in differentiating exudative and ...
Pawan Agrawal, Tirtha Man Shrestha, Pratap Narayan Prasad, Ramesh Prasad Aacharya, Priyanka Gupta   +4 more
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Whole-thorax irradiation induces hypoxic respiratory failure, pleural effusions and cardiac remodeling [PDF]

, 2014
To study the mechanisms of death following a single lethal dose of thoracic radiation, WAG/RijCmcr (Wistar) rats were treated with 15 Gy to the whole thorax and followed until they were morbid or sacrificed for invasive assays at 6 weeks.
Down, Julian D., Fish, B. L., Gao, F., Glisch, C., Harmann, L. M., Jacobs, E. R., Lawlor, M. W., Medhora, M., Moulder, J. E., Narayanan, J., Sharma, A., Snyder, L. A., Strande, J. L.   +12 more
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Indwelling pleural catheters for non-malignant pleural effusions: report on a single centre's 10 years of experience [PDF]

, 2020
BACKGROUND: Recurrent pleural effusion is a common cause of dyspnoea, cough and chest pain during the course of infectious pleurisy and non-malignant diseases like congestive heart failure (CHF) or liver cirrhosis with hepatic hydrothorax (HH). With
Brünger, Martin, Frost, Nikolaj, Raspe, Matthias, Ruwwe-Glösenkamp, Christoph, Suttorp, Norbert, Temmesfeld-Wollbrück, Bettina, Witzenrath, Martin   +6 more
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