| Abstrakt: |
A study conducted at the Jawaharlal Institute of Postgraduate Medical Education and Research in Karaikal, India, aimed to differentiate between different types of pleural effusion using the pleural fluid lactate dehydrogenase (LDH) to adenosine deaminase (ADA) ratio. The researchers found that a LDH/ADA ratio of 20.81 U/L was predictive of tuberculous pleural effusion (TPE), while a ratio of 20.86 U/L was predictive of malignant pleural effusion (MPE). However, the LDH/ADA ratio did not reach statistical significance for parapneumonic pleural effusion (PPE). This study provides a potential new parameter for the etiological differentiation of exudative pleural effusions. [Extracted from the article] |
