Investigating causes of undiagnosed exudative pleural effusion by medical Pleuroscopy and close biopsy [PDF]
Journal of Cardio-Thoracic Medicine, 2020 Introduction: Pleural effusion may develop during various acute or chronic medical conditions. Despite different diagnostic workups, some cases of pleural effusion may remain undiagnosed.
Sepide Hejazi +2 more
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Video-assisted thoracoscopic surgery for patients with undiagnosed exudative pleural effusion
SVU - International Journal of Medical Sciences, 2022 Background: The most objective of assessment in patients with undiagnosed pleural effusion is to set up early diagnosis and encourage treatment with minimal invasive procedure.
Mohamed Sabry Abdelmotaleb *
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International Journal of Mycobacteriology, 2021 Background: Establishing the etiology of exudative pleural effusions in the setting of an unrewarding pleural fluid analysis often requires biopsies from the parietal pleura.
Jolsana Augustine +7 more
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A Gelatinous Pleural Effusion as a Diagnostic Clue [PDF]
, 2023 Pleural effusion is a common presentation of several pathologies, and the determination of its cause is facilitated by macroscopic, biochemical, microbiological, and cellular analysis.
Rego, Rita, Barroso, Daniela
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Role of Video Assisted Thoracoscopic Surgery in Pleural Effusion [PDF]
International Journal of Anatomy Radiology and Surgery, 2020 Introduction: Many cases of pleural effusions remain undiagnosed even after investigations including Computed tomography (CT) chest, pleural fluid analysis.
Amandeep Singh Nar +7 more
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Diagnostic Yield of Medical Thoracoscopy in Undiagnosed Exudative Pleural EffusionA Tertiary Centre Experience from Aligarh Muslim University, Uttar Pradesh, India [PDF]
Journal of Clinical and Diagnostic Research, 2020 Introduction: Pleural effusions are one of the most common entities encountered by pulmonologists worldwide which have a very long list of causes. Initial workup of these patients begins with a chest X-ray and percutaneous or Ultrasound (USG) guided ...
MOHAMMAD ARIF +4 more
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Role for Video-Assisted Thoracoscopy in Undiagnosed Pleural Effusion: An Audit to Represent our Clinical Experience? [PDF]
International Journal of Medical Arts, 2021 Background: Undiagnosed pleural effusion represents a health challenge. To discover possible causes, there were a number of invasive and non-invasive modalities. Each modality had its own accuracy.
Zakaria Mostafa Almashtouly +2 more
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Gonococcal Peritonitis Complicated by Intraperitoneal Abscess and Pleural Empyema: A Case Report. [PDF]
Clin Case RepABSTRACT This report presents a unique case of gonococcal peritonitis complicated by an intraperitoneal abscess and pleural effusion in a 52‐year‐old woman with liver cirrhosis. No bacteriologically confirmed genital infection was identified, and the route of infection could not be established.
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Dynamic and volumetric variables reliably predict fluid responsiveness in a porcine model with pleural effusion [PDF]
, 2013 Background: The ability of stroke volume variation (SVV), pulse pressure variation (PPV) and global end-diastolic volume (GEDV) for prediction of fluid responsiveness in presence of pleural effusion is unknown.
Meybohm, Patrick +17 more
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Uniportal VATS pleural biopsy in the diagnosis of exudative pleural effusion: awake or intubated?
Journal of Cardiothoracic Surgery, 2021 Background The aim of this study is to compare the diagnostic efficacy and safety of video-assisted thoracoscopic surgery (VATS) with awake VATS (AVATS) pleural biopsy in undiagnosed exudative pleural effusions. Methods The diagnostic efficacy of pleural
Mertol Gokce +3 more
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