The first step in the evaluation of patients with pleural effusion is to determine whether the effusion is a transudate or an exudate. An exudative effusion is diagnosed if the patient meets Light's criteria. The serum to pleural fluid protein or albumin gradients may help better categorize the occasional transudate misidentified as an exudate by these criteria. If the patient has a transudativ...

Exudative lesions and capsular drops have been examined in a renal biopsy series of 25 diabetics and a post-mortem series of 100 consecutive diabetics. Electron microscopy of a capsular drop and an exudative lesion is described. Exudative lesions were found in 48% of the biopsies and 47% of the necropsy material. Capsular drops were found in 60% of the biopsies and 29% of the necropsy material....

Title Diagnosis and Management of Peripheral Exudative Hemorrhagic Chorioretinopathy (PEHCR) Abstract Text A patient who presents for routine eye exam has an incidental finding of subretinal hemorrhage and final diagnosis of PEHCR. This case report discusses characteristic signs and differential diagnoses of this rare condition.Text A patient who presents for routine eye exam has an incidental ...

BACKGROUND/AIMS Single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) in Complement Factor H (CFH), HTRA1 and CX3CR1 are associated with age-related macular degeneration (AMD) in Caucasian population. We aimed to determine whether, and of what magnitude, these AMD susceptibility SNPs are associated with exudative AMD in Han Chinese. METHODS Exudative AMD cases and age-matched controls were recruited from Na...

introduction: different etiologies of pleural effusion are diagnosed based on serum and plural fluid characteristics. the aim of this study was to assess and compare the serum and pleural fluid protein to lactate dehyrogenase (pr/ldh) ratio in exudative pleural effusions. materials and methods: this study was conducted on 60 patients with exudative pleural effusion including: 20 cases with para...

 Abstract  Background: At present, differentiation between exudative and transudative pleural  effusion is based solely on laboratory measures and is time-consuming. Asimple  bedside method would be of great help to differentiate between these two types of effusions.  We present a new method for this purpose assessed in 46 patients.  Methods: Standard laboratory tests and our method were tested...

TOPIC: Disorders of the Pleura TYPE: Medical Student/Resident Case Reports INTRODUCTION: Meigs' Syndrome has been described as development ovarian fibroma or fibroma-like mass with pleural effusion and ascitic fluid. It is present in approximately 1% all fibroma, thecoma granulosa cell tumors. Pseudo-Meigs' secondary to benign etiologies reported be more uncommon. These syndromes should conside...

PURPOSE To investigate the relationship between the early signs of age-related macular degeneration (AMD) and the risk of developing exudative AMD (typical AMD or polypoidal choroidal vasculopathy [PCV]) in the fellow eye of Japanese patients with unilateral exudative AMD, focusing particularly on eyes with only pigmentary abnormality. METHODS This study is a retrospective observational conse...

PURPOSE To compare the foveal thickness (FT) parameters measured by Stratus optical coherence tomography (OCT) and Spectralis OCT in various retinal diseases and to construct conversion formulas between the two types of OCT devices. METHODS We examined 366 consecutive patients (475 eyes) with retinal diseases and 13 normal controls (13 eyes). The patients were categorized into eight retinal d...