Diagnostic peritoneal lavage
Diagnostic peritoneal lavage: a review of indications, technique, and interpretation
... Diagnostic peritoneal lavage (DPL) is an invasive, rapid, and highly accurate test for evaluating intraperitoneal hemorrhage or a ruptured hollow ...these diagnostic modalities has unique ...
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Laparoscopic diagnostic peritoneal lavage (L-DPL): A method for evaluation of penetrating abdominal stab wounds
... determine peritoneal penetration ...of peritoneal penetration, intra-abdominal bleeding, and intra-abdominal ...before peritoneal lavage is ...
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The value of focused assessment with sonography in trauma examination for the need for operative intervention in blunt torso trauma: a rebuttal to “emergency ultrasound-based algorithms for diagnosing blunt abdominal trauma (review)”, from the Cochrane Collaboration
... Indeed, a part of the impetus to bring ultrasound machines into the trauma bay in the first place was the high reported rates of non-therapeutic laparotomies caused by the oversensitivity of the diagnostic ...
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Investigations into the feasibility of the intraperitoneal route for provision of nutritional support to companion animals : a thesis prepared in partial fulfilment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Veterinary Science, Massey University, 2000
... haemorrhage, diagnostic peritoneal lavage (DPL) is now used as an aid in the diagnosis of a wide variety of medical and surgical conditions of the ...abdomen. Diagnostic peritoneal ...
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The clinical utility of bronchoalveolar lavage in diffuse parenchymal lung disease
... clinical diagnostic studies, is the issue of an appropriate reference ...a diagnostic study but this view fails to take into account the realities of clinical ...clinical diagnostic algorithm, when ...
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Utility of bronchoalveolar lavage in the management of immunocompromised patients presenting with lung infiltrates
... the diagnostic yield varies with underlying cause of immunosuppression and alternative sampling should be considered early in patients with hematologic malignancies because of poor results with ...
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Value of "Three Dimensional Multidetector CT Hysterosalpingography" in Infertile Patients with Non-Contributory Hysterosalpingography: A Prospective Study
... Peritoneal factors: Peritubal adhesions occur sec- ondary to previous surgery, infection or inflam- mation similar to the cause of tubal occlusion. The sensitivity and negative predictive values (83.3% and 92.3% ...
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A retrospective analysis on the diagnostic value of ultrasound guided percutaneous biopsy for peritoneal lesions
... of peritoneal lesions usually depended on abdominal sur- ...detect peritoneal lesions and allow biopsies to be obtained from various parts of peritoneal ...with peritoneal or omental lesions ...
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<p>Diagnostic Accuracy of Interleukin-27 in Bronchoalveolar Lavage Fluids for Pulmonary Tuberculosis</p>
... Interleukin-27 (IL-27), a member of the interleukin-12 (IL-12) cytokine family, is a heterodimeric cytokine com- posed of two distinct genes, Epstein-Barr virus-induced gene 3 and IL-27p28, and is mainly produced by the ...
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Measuring (1,3) β D glucan in tracheal aspirate, bronchoalveolar lavage fluid, and serum for detection of suspected Candida pneumonia in immunocompromised and critically ill patients: a prospective observational study
... bronchoalveolar lavage were highest in suspected Candida pneumonia, while the serum D-glucan level was highest in non- Candida ...bronchoalveolar lavage fluid was 67%/82%/120 and 89%/86%/130, respectively, ...
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Comparing Lavage of the Peritoneal Cavity with Lidocaine, Bupivacaine and Normal Saline to Reduce the Formation of Abdominal Adhesion Bands in Rats
... Background: Intra-abdominal adhesions are fibrous bands that develop after abdominal surgery or inflammation and cause mortality and morbidity following surgeries. This study aimed to assess the effects of bupivacaine, ...
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miR 155 is dispensable in monosodium urate induced gouty inflammation in mice
... in lavage fluids from air pouch and peritoneal cavity models were measured by enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay (ELISA), and tumor necrosis factor (TNF)- α production from BMDMs of miR-155 KI mice treated ...
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Diagnostic value of plasma and bronchoalveolar lavage samples in acute lung allograft rejection: differential cytology
... „bronchoalveolar lavage fluid/cytology“ in com- bination with “graft rejection” and “lung transplantation” for BAL and “blood/cytology” or “plasma/cytology” in combination with “graft rejection” and “lung ...
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Original Article Diagnostic and prognostic significance of procalcitonin and endotoxin in peritoneal dialysis-related peritonitis
... Abstract: Objective: To identify potential markers for detecting and monitoring inflammation in patients with peri- toneal dialysis (PD)-related peritonitis, several inflammation markers, including procalcitonin (PCT), ...
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Evaluation of Unbiased Next Generation Sequencing of RNA (RNA seq) as a Diagnostic Method in Influenza Virus Positive Respiratory Samples
... Influenza RT-qPCR. The influenza-positive specimens analyzed in our study represented 24 respiratory samples (from BAL fluid, n ⫽ 7; sputum sample, n ⫽ 5; swabs, n ⫽ 11; and a tracheal secretion, n ⫽ 1) from patients ...
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Diagnostic utility of the soluble triggering receptor expressed on myeloid cells 1 in bronchoalveolar lavage fluid from patients with bilateral lung infiltrates
... Several earlier studies have focused on sTREM-1 in patients with pneumonia. The present study, however, involved only bilateral lung infiltration and took into consideration several cases of acute exacerbation of ...
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Bronchoalveolar Lavage (BAL) Cellular Analyses as a Diagnostic Intervention for Patients with Suspected ILD in Conjunction with HRCT Imaging
... (including smokers or ex-smokers) compared with patients with ILD. An increased number of nucleated immune cells and abnormal proportions of immune cell types may suggest or support specific types of ILD in the absence ...
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Clinical course and complications following diagnostic bronchoalveolar lavage in critically ill mechanically ventilated patients
... veolar lavage (BAL) have been established for diagnostic purposes in critically ill ventilated patients in intensive care units ...the lavage fluid is thought by many to be a specific ...
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Focused assessment with sonography for trauma: current perspectives
... free fluid, which necessarily means blood in acute trauma patients, in three potential body spaces, namely, pericardial, pleural and peritoneal spaces. The four target areas of scanning include the pericardial ...
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Original Article Auxiliary diagnostic value of γδΤ cell, IL-17, and IFN-γ levels in peripheral blood and bronchoalveolar lavage fluid for lung cancer complicated with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease
... Inclusion criteria of COPD patients: Patients not complicated with other cancers; without receiving drug therapy, radiochemotherapy or immunobiological therapy. Exclusion criterion of COPD patients: Patients who used to ...
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