Sunday, May 20, 2012

Pleural Effusions

Pleural effusions can be exudative (>30g/L protein) or transudative (<30g/L protein). Things that commonly cause effusions of each type are:
Also light's criteria - if any of the following are true then = exudative:
  • Pleural/Serum protein ratio > 0.5
  • Pleural/Serum LDH ratio > 0.5
  • Pleural fluid LDH > 2/3 of serum LDH level.

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