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Evaluation Of Pleural Effusion At Assiut University Hospital

NCT03260088 · Status: UNKNOWN · Type: OBSERVATIONAL · Enrollment: 1

Last updated 2017-08-24

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Summary

Pleural effusion is an accumulation of fluid between the tissue layers that line the lungs and chest cavity. It has an estimated prevalence of 320 per 100,000 people in industrialized countries. The cause of the pleural effusion remains unclear in a substantial percentage of patients with persistently exudative effusions.

Conditions

  • Pleural Effusion

Interventions

DIAGNOSTIC_TEST

Immunoglobulin G4

IgG4 will be purified from pleural fluids by diethylaminoethyl (DEAE)-cellulose ion exchange nephlometry

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • Assiut University

    lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

  • Raafat T Elsokary, Prof · Assiut University

Eligibility

Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
No

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2017-10-30
Primary Completion
2019-10-30
Completion
2020-01-30

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