The biological role of pleural fluid PAI-1 and sonographic septations in pleural infection: analysis of a prospectively collected clinical outcome study

Rationale: Sonographic septations are assumed to be important clinical predictors of outcome in pleural infection but the evidence for this is sparse. The inflammatory and fibrinolysis-associated intrapleural pathway(s) leading to septation formation have not been studied in a large cohort of pleura...

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Main Authors: Bedawi, EO, Kanellakis, NI, Corcoran, JP, Zhao, Y, Hassan, M, Asciak, R, Mercer, RM, Sundaralingam, A, Addala, DN, Miller, RF, Dong, T, Condliffe, AM, Rahman, NM
Format: Journal article
Language:English
Published: American Thoracic Society 2022