serum ascites albumin gradient (SAAG)
Etiological factor of ascites and its correlation with serum ascites albumin gradient and cholesterol gradient in patients admitted at rural area
... of SAAG, a parameter reflecting the oncotic pressure gradient between the vascular bed and the interstitial splanchnic or ascitic ...pressure gradient across the capillary ...postulated serum ...
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Clinicopathological correlation of serum ascites albumin gradient with ascitic fluid total protein in patients of ascites with portal hypertension attending a tertiary care hospital in Eastern Bihar, India
... transudative ascites while 38 (38%) had exudative ...group, serum and ascitic fluid total protein and albumin level and serum ascites albumin gradient were ...study ...
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Original Article Serum-ascites albumin gradient: an independent predictor of esophageal variceal bleeding in cirrhosis patients with ascites
... between serum-ascites albumin gradient (SAAG) and esophageal variceal bleeding (EVB) in patients with ...cirrhosis ascites at the Beijing Ditan Hospital, between January 2008 and ...
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Prediction of Oesophageal Varices in Cirrhotic Patients by Serum- Ascites Albumin Gradient
... evaluating serum ascites albumin gradient (SAAG) as a predictor of ...of SAAG. Results: there is highly significant increased SAAG in cirrhotic patients with OV than those ...
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A Study of serum ascites albumin gradient in the etiological diagnosis of ascites
... and review literature by Jeong – Seon Ji et al. and colleagues at the department of internal medicine and Pathology, College of Medicine, The Catholic University of Korea, Seoul, Korea had stated that in a review of 51 ...
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RETRACTED ARTICLE: New proposal for the serum ascites albumin gradient cut-off value in Chinese ascitic patients
... of ascites. As mentioned above, most studies about SAAG are performed in patients with cirrhotic or malignant ...tuberculous ascites has not been assessed ...tuberculous ascites. In this ...
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The Relevance of Ascitic Lactate Dehydrogenase (LDH) and Serum Ascites Albumin Gradient (SAAG) in the Differential Diagnosis of Ascites among Patients in a Nigerian Hospital
... of ascites into malignant and non-malignant ...that SAAG is a parameter of oncotic pressure gradient reflecting presence or absence of portal hypertension ...10]. SAAG ≥ ...Though SAAG ...
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Non Endoscopic Predictors of Variceal Bleeding in Patients with Liver Cirrhosis
... paracentesis, albumin infusion, and etiology of liver ...with ascites, demonstrated by ultrasonography, who had measurement of the ...High SAAG was considered to be present when SAAG was ...
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Interest of Serum Ascites Albumin Concentration Gradient in the Diagnosis of Portal Hypertension in Cirrhotic Patients
... as serum-ascites albumin gradient (SAAG) to predict esophageal varices (EV) in cirrhotics with ...of ascites fluid and upper gastrointestinal fibroscopy and had a ...median ...
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Correlation of serum-ascites albumin concentration gradient and endoscopic parameters of portal hypertension in chronic liver disease
... We grouped patients based on range of SAAG values. Of the study sample SAAG was less than 1.1 in 21% of the patients and more than 1.1 in 79 %. 84.5 % of the study population had varices when SAAG ...
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Differentiation of benign from malignant induced ascites by measuring gallbladder wall thickness
... benign ascites from malignant ascites by physical examination or radiographic techniques ...of ascites production in most cases, but laparoscopic tissue sampling may be necessary in some ...the ...
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Interest of SAAG in Etiological Diagnosis of Ascites in African Black
... the serum-ascites concentration gradient in albumin (SAAG) in the etiological diagnosis of ascites in African ...for ascites. The cytology and chemistry of the ...
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... of ascites due to malignancy among Qatari and non-Qatari residents in relation to ...on serum-ascitic albumin gradient, ascites due to malignancy was divided into two groups: first, ...
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A Comparative Study of Serum Ascitic Fluid Albumin Gradient with Ascitic Fluid Total Protein in Hepatic and Non-Hepatic Causes of Ascites in Government Vellore Medical College Hospital, Vellore
... 4 PATIENTS AND METHODOLOGY 4.1 CHARACTERISTICS OF THE STUDY The study of A COMPARATIVE STUDY OF SERUM ASCITIC FLUID ALBUMIN GRADIENT WITH ASCITIC FLUID TOTAL PROTEIN IN HEPATIC AND NON-H[r] ...
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Is albumin gradient or fluid to serum albumin ratio better than the pleural fluid lactate dehydroginase in the diagnostic of separation of pleural effusion?
... and albumin in transudates can be explained by the selec- tive sieving of these macromolecules by the normal intact microvasculature in transudates ...of ascites in patients with portal hy- pertension has ...
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Alterations in Albumin Metabolism after Serum and Albumin Infusions
... Summary Albumin distribution and metabolism were studied in 12 rabbits receiving pooled rabbit serum and in 6 rabbits, tolerant to human serum albumin, receiving pooled human serum album[r] ...
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Albumin synthesis in cirrhotic subjects with ascites studied with carbonate 14C
... supposition of impaired hepatic synthesis of albumin in liver disease is equivocated by the poor correlation between serum albumin concentration and prognosis 3, the failure of albumin i[r] ...
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Albumin to ascites: demonstration of a direct pathway bypassing the systemic circulation
... in ascites or lymph are expressed as per cent of the total plasma ...the albumin- 14 C in plasma was found in ascites in 2 hr whereas only ...plasma albumin- 131 I entered in this same ...made ...
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Corrected fructosamine, corrected glycated albumin and glycated β-lipoprotein/ β-lipoprotein ratio in patients with microvascular complications of type 2 diabetes mellitus
... analyzer. Serum glycated β-lipoprotein was measured by agarose gel film electrophoresis at pH ...glycated albumin and glycated lipoprotein were represented as the percentage of total area under the scanned ...
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Significance of serum-pleural effusion albumin gradient in differentiating transudative and exudative pleural effusions in comparison to light’s criteria
... In our study pleural fluid LDH/serum LDH > 0.6 (i.e. >0.6 as exudates and < 0.6 as transudates) separated 17 as transudates and 83 as exudates. 5 transudates (four with CHF and one cirrhosis of liver) ...
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