دورية أكاديمية
Massive Pleural Fluid Collection in Adult Nigerians
| العنوان: | Massive Pleural Fluid Collection in Adult Nigerians |
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| المؤلفون: | Kelechi E. Okonta, Emmanuel O. Ocheli, Peter D. Okoh |
| المصدر: | Advances in Medicine, Vol 2016 (2016) |
| بيانات النشر: | Hindawi Limited, 2016. |
| سنة النشر: | 2016 |
| المجموعة: | LCC:Medicine |
| مصطلحات موضوعية: | Medicine |
| الوصف: | Background. There are no available literatures on massive pleural effusions (MPE) in our country. Aim. To determine the aetiology of MPE and compare the mortality rate between malignant and nonmalignant MPE in adult Nigerians. Methods. A prospective study of all the patients diagnosed with nontraumatic pleural fluid collections for one year in two tertiary federal hospitals in Southern Nigeria. A total of 101 consecutive patients with pleural fluid collections were studied. Diagnoses were made by clinical features and laboratory and radiological investigations. Results. Forty-eight patients (47.5%) had MPE with a mean age of 43 years ± 14.04 and 35 were females. Thirty patients (62.5%) were diagnosed with nonmalignant conditions (21 from pulmonary tuberculosis (PTB) and 9 from other causes). Haemorrhagic pleural collections were from malignancy in 12 (30.8%) and from PTB in 6 (15.4%). Straw-coloured collections were from malignancy in 9 (23.1%), from PTB in 8 (20.1%), and from posttraumatic exudative effusion in 3 (7.7%). Compared with nonmalignant MPE, patients with malignant collections had higher mortality within 6 months (8/18 versus 0/30 with a P value of 0.000). Conclusion. The presentation of patients with nontraumatic haemorrhagic or straw-coloured MPE narrows the diagnosis to PTB and malignancy with MPE cases being a marker for short survival rate. |
| نوع الوثيقة: | article |
| وصف الملف: | electronic resource |
| اللغة: | English |
| تدمد: | 2356-6752 2314-758X |
| Relation: | https://doaj.org/toc/2356-6752; https://doaj.org/toc/2314-758X |
| DOI: | 10.1155/2016/6946459 |
| URL الوصول: | https://doaj.org/article/3c7ae3dbabb34548a7028093d235c270 |
| رقم الأكسشن: | edsdoj.3c7ae3dbabb34548a7028093d235c270 |
| قاعدة البيانات: | Directory of Open Access Journals |
Full Text Finder | تدمد: | 23566752 2314758X |
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| DOI: | 10.1155/2016/6946459 |