“…Histopathological diagnosis confirmed malignancy in 66.4% patients (both primary and metastatic pleural carcinoma), tuberculosis in 28.2%, others including parapneumonic effusion in 4 cases followed by multiple myeloma, lupus pleuritis, and pulmonary langerhans cell histiocytosis in one case each. …”
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“…Multiple predictive factors have been recognized, such as Raynaud’s phenomenon, pleuritis, pericarditis, anti-ribonuclear protein, and antiphospholipid antibodies. …”
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“…Two false positives were found for the test, one with pleural mesothelioma and the other with chronic pleuritis with mesothelial hyperplasia. CONCLUSIONS: The RT-PCR hybridization probes had good specificity and acceptable sensitivity, but a negative value cannot rule out pleural tuberculosis.…”
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“…BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVE: Familial Mediterranean fever (FMF) is characterized by recurrent and self-limiting attacks with peritonitis, pleuritis, arthritis, and erysipelas-like erythema. …”
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“…Most frequent clinical findings of CBZ-DILE in patients are arthralgia/arthritis, mucocutaneous manifestations, constitutional symptoms, and pleuritis or pericarditis. The renal involvement has not been reported in CBZ-DILE. …”
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“…The most frequent clinical expressions of histophilosis include undifferentiated fever, fibrinosuppurative pneumonia, encephalitis-leptomeningitis, necrotizing myocarditis, and diffuse pleuritis. Neurological disease occurs either as thrombotic meningoencephalitis (TME) or as suppurative meningitis with ventriculitis. …”
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“…The patient was transferred to our hospital with a suspected diagnosis of tuberculous pleuritis. A serum test for Mycoplasma pneumoniae-specific immunoglobulin M was positive. …”
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“…A total of 251 patients (137 lymphadenitis, and 114 pleuritis) were included in the analysis. Treatment was extended to more than 6 months in 58/251 (23%) patients. …”
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“…Immediate complications were noted in three cases (ejection of air through the pleural drains, paroxysm of atrial fibrillation, and pleuritis), which were conservatively managed. In the long term, no complications, aftereffects, or instability of the thoracic cage were observed. …”
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“…There were gastrointestinal symptoms in three patients, granulomas of the skin and gut in two, and recurrent chest pain in two, with one having pleuritis and pericarditis. Three patients had sicca-like symptoms. …”
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“…Detection of bovine viral diarrhea virus at necropsy was associated with chronic pneumonia and pleuritis. Of the calves, 25.4% was treated individually and the morbidity rate was 1.66 cases per 1000 calf days at risk. …”
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“…Among various clinical characteristics, type (with pleuritis), age (≥60), ESR (>20 mm/h) and smoking status (≥20 pack×years) were associated with low serum PA levels of TB patients, while ECOG performance status (≥2) was associated with low serum PA levels of lung cancer patients. …”
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“…Tuberculous pleurisy was diagnosed in six while uraemic pleuritis was diagnosed in 20 subjects. The sensitivity and specificity of pleural fluid ADA, 65 kDa gene PCR, and multiplex PCR were 66.7 and 90 per cent, 100 and 50 per cent, and 100 and 100 per cent, respectively. …”
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“…RESULTS: The following primary clinical characteristics of the patients were observed peritonitis was observed in 378 (93.8%), high-grade fever in 351 (86.88%), arthritis in 215 (54.57%), pleuritis in 207 (53.49%), myalgia in 153 (41.69%), AA amyloidosis in 149 (40.16%), and erysipelas-like erythema in 54 (14.96%) subjects. …”
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“…However, the patient died 1 month later of carcinomatous pleuritis following distant metastasis to the lung. …”
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“…The pathogenesis of pseudo-Meigs’ syndrome should be distinguished from carcinomatous peritonitis and/or pleuritis of malignant disease.…”
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“…METHODS: The detailed history, physical examination, laboratory tests, electrocardiography, serial echocardiography, coronary angiography with left ventriculography were performed to diagnose possible Takotsubo cardiomyopathy in 63-year old woman admitted to our center with complaints of dyspnea, lightheadedness, weakness and signs of hypotension and history of inferior myocardial infarction, acute left ventricular aneurysm, and effusive pericarditis and pleuritis, developed after emotional stress 5 months ago. …”
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“…Following histopathology and immunohistochemistry, tissue cysts were visualized in the reindeer given the highest and lowest dose of oocysts. Focal pleuritis and alveolitis were associated with respiratory problems in reindeer given the middle dose. …”
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“…CONCLUSION: Medical thoracoscopy is a very safe procedure. Tuberculous pleuritis is by far the most common etiology of exudative pleural effusions in Qatar. …”
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“…The most cases of EPTB were in the group of patients aged from 21 to 30 years because of frequency of tuberculous pleurisy. The tuberculous pleuritis is the most frequent form of ETPB (p<0.01). …”
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