Tuberculous pleural effusion (TPE) is among the most common forms of extrapulmonary tuberculosis (TB), which often presents as an acute disease with fever, cough, and pleuritic chest pain. Pleural fluid associated with TPE is an exudate that predominantly contains lymphocytes. The gold standard for...
A transudative pleural effusion develops when the systemic factors influencing the formation or absorption of the pleural fluid are altered. The pleural surfaces are not involved in the primary pathologic process. The diagnosis of transudative effusion is simple to establish by examining the characteri...
Pleural tuberculoma often occurs in the mid-late tuberculous pleurisy therapy, mostly subsided in pleural effusion. Good hair at the chest part, before and after the lateral chest wall all can happen, more for single, or mul...
To evaluate the clinical use of interferon gamma release assays (QuantiFERON-TB Gold (In-Tube Method)) for the diagnosis of pleural tuberculosis and comparing it with ADA as a method for diagnosis TB effusion. Patients and methods 40 patients presenting with pleural effusions were classified accord...
TuberculosispleuralPleural effusionComputed tomographyX-rayTwenty patients with tuberculous pleural effusions were studied with ultrasonography. In 18 patients, ultrasonography demonstrated regular pleural thickening which was less than 1 cm except in 1 case. In 4 cases there were a few pleural nodules, ...
Primary Tuberculosis There were 18 patients (15 men and three women) with a median age of 54 years (range, 25 to 82 years) who had a pleural effusion due to primary tuberculosis. As shown in Table 1, the most frequent symptoms were fever and cough, which were observed in 11 patients ...
3、in the process of treatment, the local tuberculous pleural enrichment, forming fiber package of caseous necrosis nodule or mass. 4、结核分枝杆菌经血行或淋巴道发生胸膜种植,或邻近胸膜的肺内结核病灶直接蔓延形成胸膜结核瘤。 4、 mycobacterium tube...
Why is there pleural effusion in tuberculosis? Development of tuberculous pleural effusion may occur as aresult of delayed hypersensitivity reaction to mycobacteria or mycobacterial antigens in the pleural space in sensitized individuals[10] or by rupture of a subpleural focus of pulmonary disease into...
The following conditions may lead to pleural effusion:1 Congestive heart failureand other heart problems Cancer, especially lung cancer, breast cancer, or lymphoma Lung infections, including pneumonia andtuberculosis Pulmonary embolism(a clot that has lodged in arteries leading to the lungs) ...
(94%). In tuberculosis-endemic countries, thoracoscopy may not be necessary since closed needle pleural biopsy’s diagnostic yield is high. Also, pleural fluid adenosine deaminase carries a good sensitivity (87.5%) and specificity (87.82%). More recently, anti-inflammatory therapy with intravenous ...