Bilirubin in Edema Fluids in Cardiac Decompensation
| Autor: | M. D. Altschule, M. C. Volk |
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| Rok vydání: | 1937 |
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Ascitic fluid
medicine.medical_specialty Cardiac edema business.industry Bilirubin Edema fluid Jaundice Gastroenterology General Biochemistry Genetics and Molecular Biology chemistry.chemical_compound chemistry Cardiac decompensation Internal medicine Edema Medicine In patient medicine.symptom business |
| Zdroj: | Experimental Biology and Medicine. 37:184-185 |
| ISSN: | 1535-3699 1535-3702 |
| DOI: | 10.3181/00379727-37-9502 |
| Popis: | Meakins1 stated that edema fluids in patients with cardiac decompensation contain no bilirubin and attempted to correlate this finding with the distribution of jaundice in patients with congestive failure. Andrews,2 however, had previously reported the presence of appreciable amounts of bilirubin in the ascitic fluid of a patient with cardiac decompensation.In the present studies edema fluids from various body spaces taken from 8 patients with cardiac edema were examined. Fluids and blood were withdrawn from the patient within a few minutes of each other. The method of Van den Bergh as modified by McNee and Keefer3 was used in estimating the serum and edema fluid bilirubin contents; the protein concentrations were measured by the macrokjeldahl method according to Dyer4 (non-protein nitrogen was subtracted from total nitrogen).The serum bilirubin concentration ranged from 0.6 mg. % to 2.8 mg.; %; that of the edema fluids varied from a trace to 1.3 mg. %. Bilirubin was found in every specimen of edema fluid... |
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