Pleural fluid analysis and radiographic, sonographic, and echocardiographic characteristics of hepatic hydrothorax

Chest

Volumn 140, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 448-453

  Gurung, Puncho ^a   Goldblatt, Mark ^a   Huggins, John T ^a   Doelken, Peter ^a   Nietert, Paul J ^b   Sahn, Steven A ^a  

^a MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA   (United States)

^b MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FUROSEMIDE; LACTATE DEHYDROGENASE; PROTEIN; SERUM ALBUMIN; SPIRONOLACTONE;

ADULT; AGED; ANALYSIS; ANALYTICAL PARAMETERS; ARTICLE; ASCITES; BACTERIAL PLEURITIS; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONTRAST ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; DIASTOLIC DYSFUNCTION; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HEPATIC HYDROTHORAX; HUMAN; HYDROTHORAX; LACTATE DEHYDROGENASE PLEURAL FLUID LEVEL; MALE; NEUTROPHIL COUNT; PLEURA EFFUSION; PLEURA FLUID; PLEURA FLUID ANALYSIS; PLEURAL FLUID PH; PLEURAL FLUID SERUM PROTEIN RATIO; PLEURISY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN PLEURAL FLUID LEVEL; PULMONARY SHUNT; THORACOCENTESIS; TRANSJUGULAR INTRAHEPATIC PORTOSYSTEMIC SHUNT;

EID: 80051504970     PISSN: 00123692     EISSN: 19313543     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1378/chest.10-2134     Document Type: Article

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