non-tuberculous pleural effusion
A study of pleural effusion with reference to different diagnostic modalaties
... the pleural effusion was exudative and 8% was ...of pleural effusion followed by malignancy (23%), 5% of the patients remains ...criteria pleural LDH has highest specificity (100) and ...
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Diagnostic Utility of Sago Like Nodules on Gross Thoracoscopic Appearance in Tuberculous Pleural Effusion and Their Correlation with Final Histo Microbiologic Findings
... exudative pleural effusion who underwent MT during the study period, 344 were diagnosed with TPE based on the criteria mentioned ...of non-TB cases of exudative pleural effusion (Table ...
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CONTRIBUTION OF PLEURAL BIOPSY IN THE DIAGNOSIS OF LYMPHOCYTIC EXUDATIVE PLEURISY
... Pleural effusion is a common pathology in clinical practice in ...Blind pleural biopsy is one of the investigative techniques for non-purulent pleurisy commonly used in developing ...Blind ...
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Multivariate Analysis of Tuberculous Pleural Effusion and Evaluation of Serological Response to A 60 Antigen Complex.
... from tuberculous pleural effusion, organisms are rarely seen following ZN microscopy because of paucibacillary nature of the ...of non- viable mycobacteria in partially treated patients or due ...
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Gamma Interferon Immunospot Assay of Pleural Effusion Mononuclear Cells for Diagnosis of Tuberculous Pleurisy
... in pleural fluid of patients with parapneumonic ...of pleural conditions lead to an elevated pleural fluid ADA level (4, 14, 26), with parapneu- monic effusion and empyema being probably the ...
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Diagnostic Performance of Pleural Fluid Adenosine Deaminase for Tuberculous Pleural Effusion in a Low Incidence Setting
... Limitations of this study include its retrospective nature and the associated potential for etiological attribution error and/or bias associated with investigators assigning cause from clinical records. There is also ...
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Factors affecting pleural fluid adenosine deaminase level and the implication on the diagnosis of tuberculous pleural effusion: a retrospective cohort study
... Continuous variables are expressed as mean ( SD) while categorical variables are expressed as number and group percentages. Differences in ADA levels between groups were analysed using unpaired Student t test and one way ...
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Identifying tuberculous pleural effusion using artificial intelligence machine learning algorithms
... with pleural effusion from October 2018 to August ...in pleural tissue, 1 case with epithelioid case- ous granuloma in lung tissue, 1 case with positive PCR for Mycobacterium tuberculosis in ...
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Original Article Combined detections of interleukin-33 and adenosine deaminase for diagnosis of tuberculous pleural effusion
... from non-TPE is still a clini- cal challenge, since they have similar clinical or laboratory manifestations and sometimes a lack of pathological or etiological evidence ...closed pleural biopsied tis- sue ...
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Interferon Gamma Release Assays for Diagnosis of Pleural Tuberculosis: a Systematic Review and Meta Analysis
... or pleural fluid samples is positive ...of pleural fluid adenosine deaminase, a test commonly employed for diagnosing TPE ...in non-TPE patients may have compromised specificity, especially in ...
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Pleural Fluid Adenosine Deaminase for Diagnosis of Tuberculous Pleural Effusion
... lymphocytes. Tuberculous pleural effusion is the result of cell mediated immune response to the presence of Mycobacterium tuberculosis and is characterized by the accumulation of the activated T ...
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Diagnostic value of interleukins for tuberculous pleural effusion: a systematic review and meta-analysis
... either pleural effusion or pleural ...addition, pleural biopsy is invasive and technically difficult to some extent, particularly in children, such that success can depend strongly on the ...
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Rapid Detection of Cell Free Mycobacterium tuberculosis DNA in Tuberculous Pleural Effusion
... ABSTRACT Tuberculous pleurisy is one of the most common types of extrapulmo- nary tuberculosis, but its diagnosis remains ...in pleural ef- fusion and an evaluation of a newly developed molecular assay for ...
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Diagnostic accuracy of tumor necrosis factor-alpha, interferon-gamma, interlukine-10 and adenosine deaminase 2 in differential diagnosis between tuberculous pleural effusion and malignant pleural effusion
... symptoms, pleural effusion analysis, and/or pleural biopsy specimen ...as tuberculous pleural effusion based on the presence of either positive staining or culture for ...the ...
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Complications and residual pleural thickening after intrapleural instillation of streptokinase with pigtail catheter drainage of tuberculous pleural effusion
... Intrapleural injection therapy was started on the following day, with intrapleural injection of solution containing 250,000 IU of dissolved streptokinase in 100ml of normal saline. After injection, the pigtail tube was ...
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Diagnostic Value of Adenosine Deaminase Isoenzyme (ADA2) and Total ADA in Tuberculous Pleural Effusion
... purulent fluid, or positive culture of pleural fluid; Rheumatoid arthritis with clinical history, and idiopathic cases with no specific cause were identified. On the basis of these diagnoses, 5 groups were ...
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Case Report An 88-year-old man with MDS/MPN-RS-T accompanied by unexplained repeated pleural effusion
... unexplained pleural effusion. The pleural effusion was asymmetric, non-neoplastic, and lymphocytes dominated the ...for pleural effusion and the use of hydroxyurea and EPO ...
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Retrospective study of pleural parasitic infestations: a practical diagnostic approach
... of pleural effusion lactate dehydrogenase (LDH), adenosine deaminase (ADA), protein and carcinoembryonic antigen (CEA) were ...the pleural effusion was ...the pleural effusion of ...
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TREATMENT OF TUBERCULOUS PLEURAL EFFUSIONS WITH PARTICULAR REFERENCE TO ADRENAL CORTICOSTEROIDS
... found that 8.9% of 595 patients with pleural effusion later died of tuberculosis, and 18.5% suffered from tuberculous disease in some form; he also comments on the probable high incidenc[r] ...
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A clinical study of diagnostic efficacy of adenosine deaminase levels in tubercular pleural effusion
... TB Pleural effusion is the manifestation of delayed hypersensitivity to Mycobacterium tuberculosis antigen and is characterised by the presence of activated T lymphocytes and macrophages in the ...
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