| Autor: |
S K, Bansal, R P, Singh, R K, Narang, L D, Joshi, A, Bansal, A K, Agrawal |
| Rok vydání: |
1991 |
| Předmět: |
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| Zdroj: |
The Indian journal of chest diseasesallied sciences. 33(4) |
| ISSN: |
0377-9343 |
| Popis: |
The study has been conducted to find out the serum ADA levels in 120 patients with various pulmonary diseases which included patients with tubercular pleural effusion (n = 86), lung cancer (n = 10) and patients with non-tubercular pulmonary diseases like pneumonia, etc (n = 24). Twenty healthy individuals served as control subjects. The mean (+/- SD) of ADA activity was 23.38 (4.47), 7.29 (1.08), 12.71 (1.95) and 2.23 (1.00) units/litre in tuberculosis, malignancy, non-tubercular pulmonary diseases and healthy controls respectively with significant difference between each other (P less than 0.001). Patients with tuberculosis (100%) fall in 97% sensitivity range with a lower cut off limit at 17 units/litre ADA activity, while for malignancy and non-tubercular respiratory diseases, the sensitivity was 90% and 83% respectively. Within the sensitivity limits, the serum ADA activity can be used for the differential diagnosis of pulmonary diseases. |
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