Tuberculous pleural effusion
Serial pulmonary function test abnormality in tuberculous pleural effusion
... of tuberculous pleural effusion, (ii) to correlate the abnormalities if detected with the severity of pleural effusion and (iii) to correlate such abnormalities if detected with the ...
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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
... of pleural effusion, which has an occurrence of ...all pleural effusion cases, respectively ...of tuberculous pleural effusion (TPE) from malignant pleural ...
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Original Article Combined detections of interleukin-33 and adenosine deaminase for diagnosis of tuberculous pleural effusion
... Africa. Tuberculous pleural effusion (TPE) occurs in up to 30% of patients with TB and constitutes the major portion of the extrapulmonary TB morbidity ...with pleural effusions ...test, ...
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Complications and residual pleural thickening after intrapleural instillation of streptokinase with pigtail catheter drainage of tuberculous pleural effusion
... with pleural or peritoneal effusions, all patients with a pleural fluid ADA of 70IU/L had TB, whereas no patient with a pleural fluid ADA below 40 IU/L had tuberculous ...with pleural ...
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Multivariate Analysis of Tuberculous Pleural Effusion and Evaluation of Serological Response to A 60 Antigen Complex.
... In aspirates from tuberculous pleural effusion, organisms are rarely seen following ZN microscopy because of paucibacillary nature of the disease. In our study we have encountered only 4 (3.8%) ZN ...
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A study to know the various causes of pleural effusion and role of pleural fluid adenosine deaminase enzyme in tuberculous pleural effusion
... with pleural effusion were enrolled during the study ...respectively. Tuberculous Pleural Effusion group (TPE) seen in 82 ...sided pleural effusion ...mean pleural ...
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Imbalance of Th17 Cells and Regulatory T Cells in Tuberculous Pleural Effusion
... from tuberculous pleural effusion (left) and blood (middle) and cultured CD39 ⫹ Tregs (right) were analyzed by flow cytometry for determining the surface expression of LAP; data for 1 representative ...
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Diagnostic Value of Adenosine Deaminase Isoenzyme (ADA2) and Total ADA in Tuberculous Pleural Effusion
... of tuberculous pleural effusion is difficult due to low sensitivity of the various standard diagnostic ...of pleural ADA, it is important to highlight the fact that ADA is represented by two ...
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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
... in tuberculous pleural effusion is due largely to high ADA2 activity ...TPE. Pleural protein and LDH are both indi- cators of the degree of pleural inflammation [1] and there would be ...
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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 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 ...exudative pleural effusion (Table ...the pleural ...
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Efficacy of intrapleural instillation of streptokinase with pigtail catheter drainage in the treatment of tuberculous pleural effusion
... of tuberculous pleural effusion patients at the end of six months of anti-tubercular treatment of 50 patients from January 2009 to June 2010 were ...
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Rapid Detection of Cell Free Mycobacterium tuberculosis DNA in Tuberculous Pleural Effusion
... Another immunologic method, T-SPOT, was also evaluated in this study. First, T-SPOT showed a very poor specificity. Although the specificity of T-SPOT was signif- icantly different between the TP and no TP groups, 11 out ...
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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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Identifying tuberculous pleural effusion using artificial intelligence machine learning algorithms
... parameters, and pleural fluid measurements. All of these measures are routinely used in clinical practice and were, therefore, quickly and easily obtainable without the need for specialized equipment. Therefore, ...
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Discriminating Tuberculous Pleural Effusion from Malignant Pleural Effusion Based on Routine Pleural Fluid Biomarkers, Using Mathematical Methods
... Some limitations of this study should be acknowledged. First, we differentiated only TPE and MPE patients. Although most problems occur in distinguishing between exudative effusion in these two diseases (3, 4), ...
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Role of Adenosine Deaminase and Lymphocyte/Neutrophil Ratio in the Diagnosis of Tuberculous Pleural Effusion in Patients with Exudative Pleural Effusion
... in pleural fluid maintained at ambient temperature, as reported by Miller et al, 43 will decrease with ...to pleural fluid stabilizes ADA levels for up to 3 weeks at 37°C, obviating the need to freeze or ...
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Diagnostic Performance of Pleural Fluid Adenosine Deaminase for Tuberculous Pleural Effusion in a Low Incidence Setting
... as pleural fluid adenosine deaminase (pfADA) to supplement standard investiga- tions ...TB pleural effusion of 91 and 93%, respectively, suggesting reasonable discriminatory ability (6, ...TB ...
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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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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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