Abstract
A total 105 cases of pleural effusion,65 male and 40 females having different etiology were analysed for pleural fluid albumin gradient. The findings were analysed and compared with Lights criteria to differentiate exudates from transudate. The pleural fluid to serum albumin cut off value 1.2gm/dl to differentiate between exudates and transudate showed sensitivity of 95.50%. Specificity of 87.5%.Positive predictive value 97.70% and efficiency of 94.28%.
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Mohanty, D. L. K., Ingole, D. N. A., & Ambad, D. R. S. (2018). Serum to Pleural Fluid Albumin Gradient to Differentiate Transudative and Exudative Pleural Effusion. International Journal of Innovative Research in Medical Science, 3(03), 1799 to 1803. https://doi.org/10.23958/ijirms/vol03-i03/05
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Copyright © 2018 Dr. L. K. Mohanty Dr. Nishikant A. Ingole Dr. Ranjit S. Ambad this is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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