Clinical, laboratory, and echocardiographic features of patients with pericardial effusion in Gaziantep region

Abstract

ÖzetMalakoplaki, kronik granülomatöz inflamatuar bir reaksiyondur. Sıklıkla immün baskılanmış hastalarda oluşur. Makrofajların uygun bir şekilde fagositoz yapamadığı bakteriyel infeksiyona karşı sıra dışı cevabı temsil ettiğine inanılır. En sık üriner ve gastrointestinal sistemi tutar. Spesifik klinik semptomu yoktur. Tanısı histopatolojik inceleme ile konulur. Klinikte üretral kitle ön tanısı ile gönderilen ve histopatolojik inceleme ile malakoplaki tanısı alan olgumuzu literatür eşliğinde sunmayı amaçladık. Anahtar kelimeler: Malakoplaki; ürogenital sistem; üretra. AbstractMalakoplakia is a chronic granulomatous inflammatory reaction. It occurs most frequently in immune compromised patients. It is believed that this entity represents an unusual response to bacterial infection in which macrophages fail to phagocytose them properly. It involves mostly the urinary and gastrointestinal tracts. This disease has not any specific clinic symptom. The diagnosis is based on histopathological examination. We have tried to present the case along with the literature of this kind, which is pre-diagnosed as urethral mass and malakoplakia through histopathological examination in the clinic.

Etiologic, Echocardiographic, Cytological and Biochemical Characteristics of Patients with Significant Pericardial Effusion requiring Pericardiocentesis in a Tertiary Hospital

“…included 104 patients in a study where they found that idiopathic causes were the most common on es (16). Another study conducted in Turkey including 123 patients with pericardial effusion found that 31.1% of the etiology was associated with idiopathic causes (17). In another study conducted by Strobbe et al and including 269 patients undergoing pericardiocentesis in the past 10 years, they found that the etiology was idiopathic in 26% of the cases, and associated with malignancy in 25% (18).…”