Complementary pleurectomy following emphysematous bullae resection is justified only if it improves long-term results in comparison with surgical symphysis obtained by pleural irritation. This cannot be proved at this time. On the other hand, in spite of their limitations, experiments in man suggest that this pleurectomy does not cause any particular complications. In the animal, this parietal pleural resection causes cortical fibrous alveolitis which is not present after other symphysis processes. The authors suggest therefore the use of pleurectomy as a complement of bullae resections in acute and diffuse emphysema.
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Biomark Res
May 2020
1Institute for Prevention and Occupational Medicine of the German Social Accident Insurance - Institute of the Ruhr University Bochum (IPA), Buerkle-de-la-Camp-Platz 1, 44789 Bochum, Germany.
Background: For the detection of malignant mesothelioma additional markers are needed besides the established panel consisting of calretinin and mesothelin. The aim of this study was the identification and verification of long non-coding RNAs (lncRNAs) as complementing circulating markers.
Methods: Candidate lncRNAs were identified in silico using previously published RNA expression profiles and verified using quantitative PCR (qPCR) in mesothelioma cell lines as well as human plasma samples from mesothelioma patients and asbestos-exposed controls.
Lupus
August 1999
Department of Medicine B, Sheba Medical Center, Tel-Hashomer, Israel.
A 48 y old woman with unremarkable medical history was admitted with bilateral pleural effusions; even though the fluid was drained, it re-accumulated and necessitated many repeated drainages in the following 2.5 y (56 hospitalisations). The patient underwent an extensive diagnostic work-up that disclosed elevated serum antinuclear antibodies, serum anti-dsDNA antibodies, pleural fluid anti-dsDNA and decreased pleural fluid C3 and C4.
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