Tuberculosis is one of the most prevalent disease developing countries resulting in significant morbidity. Extra pulmonary tuberculosis results pleurisy among predilection to other organ and systems like lymph nodes. Pleurisy tubercular pleural effusion. Pleural effusions are mostly seen immunocompetent patients. Here we present a case effusion which was diagnosed by cytology examination fluid ...

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...

The aim of this study was to assess the relationship between tail lesions, cold carcass weight, and viscera condemnations in an Irish abattoir. The following data were collected at the evisceration point from every third pig slaughtered over 7 days: farm identification, sex, tail lesion score, viscera inspection outcome, and cold carcass weight. Tail lesions were scored according to a 5-point s...

Purpose: To investigate the effects and potential mechanisms of Shaoyao-Gangcao-Tang (SGT) on acute and resolution phases of carrageenin-induced pleurisy in rats. Methods: To determine the effects of SGT at 2 h, Sprague-Dawley rats received injection of 0.2 ml of 1 % λ-carrageenin into the pleural cavity after treatment with 4.0, 13.3 and 40.0 g/kg SGT for three days. At 2 h after pleurisy indu...

BACKGROUND Complement functions as an important host defense system and complement C5 and C7 have been implicated in immunopathology of tuberculosis. However, little is known about the role of other complement components in tuberculosis. METHODS Complement gene expression in peripheral blood mononuclear cells of tuberculosis patients and controls were determined using whole genome transcripti...

Although several studies on tuberculous (TB) pleurisy suggest that the addition of corticosteroids to anti-TB therapy may have beneficial effects, these agents are not used routinely. To assess the effects of short-term oral prednisone therapy in TB pleurisy, 74 patients were randomly assigned in a double-blind fashion to treatment with either placebo or prednisone at a dose of 0.75 mg/kg/d for...

Several past and recent investigations have focused on the determination of tumor markers in pleural fluids to assess their usefulness as less invasive replacement method of diagnosis. In this regard, few studies have dealt with the determination of the tumor marker, neuron specific enolase (NSE), in pleural fluids of patients suffering from both benign and malignant diseases such as non small ...