pleural effusionsventilationThe arterial blood gas (ABG) gives a lot of information on acid‐base balance, oxygenation and ventilation. It is an objective measure of the physiology churning inside. Any disturbances in physiology will readily get reflected in the ABG. ABG interpretation starts with ...
Laboratory investigation of pleural effusion begins with protein and lactate dehydrogenase tests to determine whether the fluid is a transudate or an exudate. If the effusion is a transudate, no further testing is necessary. If the effusion is an exudate, a variety of additional tests may be ...
56 Pleural Fluid 379 Melissa Mazan 57 Urine Analysis 383 Leslie Sharkey 58 Synovial Fluid 387 Jorge Nieto and Jan Trela 59 Cerebrospinal Fluid 393 Monica Aleman 60 Laboratory Testing for Endocrine and Metabolic Disorders 401 Nicholas Frank
MDCT is an unrivalled method for the diagnosis of pleural fluid. Blood has a higher density than water. Its value depends on the degree of coagulation. The density of liquid blood is between 30 and 50 HU, and the density of blood clots is 50–90 HU. Hematomas can sometimes have a ...
Bright ghosting artifacts can result from poor electrocardiogram (ECG) gating, poor breath-holding, and long T1 species in the imaging plane (e.g., cerebrospinal fluid, pleural effusion, gastric fluid, etc.) [47] ii) On non-PSIR images, tissue with long T1 (regions below the zero-crossing...
pleural fluidRequests for testing various analytes in serous fluids (e.g. pleural, peritoneal, pericardial effusions) are submitted daily to clinical laboratories. Testing of these fluids deviates from assay ma...doi:http://dx.doi.org/10.3109/10408363.2013.844679...
has compared the effect of expelling water retention with crude kansui and V-kansui on cancerous ascites rats. The volumes of pleural fluid significantly decreased in the V-kansui group by increasing the volumes of urine in model rats. Serum biochemical study also showed that the levels of ...
The volumes of pleural fluid significantly decreased in the V-kansui group by increasing the volumes of urine in model rats. Serum biochemical study also showed that the levels of PRA, Ang II, ALD and ADH declined (p < 0.05), indicating the remarkable effect of V-kansui on the treatment ...