The clinical presentations of tuberculous pleurisy are usually nonspecific and have an insidious course, thus resulting in diagnostic challenges. Pseudomonas oryzihabitans is a nonfermenting, oxidase-negative, catalase-positive, Gram-negative bacillus that has rarely been encountered as a human pathogen. We present the case of a 30-year-old male patient who exhibited intermittent fever despite...

The aim of this study was to identify the optimal cut-off value of T cell enzyme-linked immunospot assay for tuberculosis (T-SPOT.TB) and evaluate its diagnostic performance alone (in the peripheral blood) or in combination with the adenosine deaminase (ADA) activity test (in peripheral blood and the pleural fluid) in patients with tuberculous pleurisy.Adult patients presenting with pleural eff...

background: pleurisy is a common extra pulmonary complication of tuberculosis, but current methods for diagnosing it are fairly crude. here we product a meta-analysis for the available evidence on the ability of tumor necrosis factor-? (tnf-?) in pleural fluid to serve as a diagnostic marker of tuberculous pleurisy (tp). materials and methods: we searched the pubmed, embase, and google scholar ...

Tuberculous pleuritis (TP) is one of the most common extra-pulmonary tuberculosis form. Because tuberculous pleurisy hard to diagnose due slow course disease and lack specificity in symptoms diagnostic methods. In that reason, we need multidisciplinary approach efficient biomarkers. Acid-fast bacilli (AFB) staining, cultures pathophysiological biopsy finding from majority patients are positive ...

The cytological examination of the evacuated pleural fluid is very important in diagnosis and differential etiology effusion syndrome. Assessment effectiveness using diagnostic method a routine way was conducted within frames given study. Materials 320 patients with have been studied. In cases malignant tumors pleurisies were seen 8.1% patients, tuberculous pleurisy confirmed 26.9% cases. Pleur...

The purpose of the present study was to investigate the diagnostic value of T cells spot test (T-Spot TB) combined with interferon-γ (INF-γ) and interleukin-27 (IL-27) in tuberculous pleurisy. Sixty patients with tuberculous pleurisy (observation group) and 60 patients with non-tuberculous pleurisy (control group) were enrolled in this study. T-Spot TB was performed to detect the pleural effusi...

BACKGROUND The release of interferon-gamma (IFN-γ) by T lymphocytes increases after rechallenge with Mycobacterium tuberculosis antigen, especially, at a localized site of tuberculosis (TB) infection. We aimed to compare the clincial efficacy of two commercial IFN-γ release assays from pleural fluid for the diagnosis in tuberculous pleurisy. METHODS We performed T-SPOT.TB and QuantiFERON-TB G...