Background: Patients with symptomatic malignant pleural effusion (MPE) may gain profit from pleurodesis for relief of dyspnea and in preventing the accumulation of fluid or air in the pleural space. Pleurodesis methods are palliative and regard the patient's symptoms and underlying disease condition that are different. The purpose of this study was to assess the efficacy of bleomycin in the tre...

there are many techniques to knock out directed genes in bacteria, some of which have been described in salmonella species. in this study, a combination of soeing pcr method and the λ red disruption system were used to disrupt phop gene in wild type and standard strains of salmonella typhimurium. three standards pcr and one fusion pcr reactions were performed to construct a linear dna including...

malignant pleural effusion is a common complication in certain malignancies. pleurodesis is the best option most of the time. the purpose of this study was to compare the choice of belomycin with povidone-iodine, which is not only determined by the efficacy of the agent but also by its cost, accessibility, safety, ease of administration and the number of administrations to achieve a complete re...

conclusions p. luteola is resistant to tmp-smx, but in the present case p. luteola was susceptible to tmp-smx case presentation the current study isolated p. luteola from empyema in a patient with tuberculous pleurisy, whose susceptibility to trimethoprim-sulfamethoxazole differed from previous reports. introduction pseudomonas luteola is an uncommon opportunistic pathogen. it is recognized as ...

burkitt's lymphoma is a lymphatic tumor classified as non-hodgkin lymphoma with small non cleaved cells. the disease has an incidence of two cases per million patients in north america, and usually present with an intra-abdominal tumor, or enlarged cervical lymph nodes. massive amounts of peritoneal and plural fluid is rarely seen in these patients. a three year-old girl presented with massive ...

introduction: the role of ultrasonography in detection of pleural effusion has long been a subject of interest but controversial results have been reported. accordingly, this study aims to conduct a systematic review of the available literature on diagnostic value of ultrasonography and radiography in detection of pleural effusion through a meta-analytic approach. methods: an extended search wa...

Renal cell carcinoma (RCC) accounts for only 3% of adult malignancies, and the lung is the most common site of metastasis of this tumor, which may be accompanied by pleural metastasis. However, solitary pleural involvement is very rare and its presentation with dyspnea as the first manifestation of RCC is extremely rare.We describe a 39-year-old male with episodes of dyspnea dating back 6...

light's criteria (protein and ldh) have been used to the present to differentiate exudative pleural effusion from transudative. this is both time consuming and relatively more expensive as compared to measuring cholesterol. during 1992-1993, a prospective study on 70 patients with effusion was carried out measuring fasting ldh, protein, cholesterol, alkaline phosphatase and glucose. all pa...