Article: Management of empyema - Role of a surgeon.(Review Articles)

Article: Quantitative analysis of pleural fluid cell-free ...
Clinical Chemistry;  May 1, 2003 ;     700+ words ... ... effusions by measuring cell-free DNA in pleural fluid. Methods: We recruited 50 consecutive ... quantitative real-time PCR. Serum and pleural fluid biochemistries were performed to classify ... diagnostic accuracy were calculated for both pleural fluid DNA and modified criteria of ...

Article: Pleural Fluid Characteristics of Chylothorax
Mayo Clinic Proceedings;  February 1, 2009 ;     700+ words ... ... surgical procedures in 51%. The chylous pleural fluid appeared milky in only 44%. Pleural ... in 10 patients (14%). However, pleural fluid protein and lactate dehydrogenase levels ... cholesterol value was 6630 mg/dL. The pleural fluid triglyceride value was less than 110 ...

Article: The Diagnostic Value of Pleural Fluid and Serum ...
Clinical Chemistry;  June 1, 2006 ;     543 words ... ... vascular system. We aimed to evaluate pleural fluid and serum ADMA levels in patients with ... Materials and methods: Serum and pleural fluid ADMA levels were measured in 30 patients ... determinations were expressed as mol/L and in pleural fluid were expressed as mol/ g protein ...

Article: PAT2 Diagnosis of a large cell neuroendocrine carcinoma (NEC) by ...
Southern Medical Journal;  December 1, 2001 ;     700+ words ... ... NEUROENDOCRINE CARCINOMA (NEC) BY PLEURAL FLUID CYTOLOGY, WITH SUBSEQUENT ANALYSIS ... to the pleura that was diagnosed by pleural fluid cytology and confirmed by immunocytochemistry ... pleural metastasis on 10/2,000. Pleural fluid cytology and a pleural biopsy revealed ...

Article: Diagnostic utility of LunX mRNA in peripheral blood and ...
BMC Cancer;  May 31, 2008 ;     700+ words ... ... 6]. Determining CEA and NSE in pleural fluid could enhance the diagnostic yield ... cancer cells in peripheral blood and pleural fluid using real-time RT-PCR, with the ... of patients (peripheral blood and pleural fluid groups) were shown in Table 1. Patients ...

Article: Is pH paper an acceptable, low-cost alternative to the blood gas ...
Canadian Journal of Respiratory Therapy;  October 1, 1998 ;     579 words ... ... than a blood gas analyzer to measure pleural fluid pH to decrease cost and avoid analyzer ... compare these two methods of determining pleural fluid pH, 42 patients undergoing diagnostic ... thoracentesis had two 1-mL aliquots of pleural fluid anaerobically collected in a heparinized ...

Article: Conservative management of chylothorax with autoinfusion of ...
Nephrology Nursing Journal;  December 1, 2002 ;     700+ words ... ... intensive care unit (PICU) with removal of one liter of pleural fluid (chyle) on each occasion and relief of respiratory symptoms ... on dialysis was selected. This involved autoinfusion of pleural fluid during hemodialysis. After a discussion with E.T. and ...