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Correlation between level of angiopoietin - 2 ( pleural fluid and serum ) and aetiogenesis of pleural effusion /

Ashraf Abdelhady Zaky Abdelhady

Correlation between level of angiopoietin - 2 ( pleural fluid and serum ) and aetiogenesis of pleural effusion / العلاقة بين الأنجيوبيوتين فى السائل البللورى والأسباب المؤدية إلى الانسكاب البللورى Ashraf Abdelhady Zaky Abdelhady ; Supervised Hoda Ali Abuyoussef , Olfat Gamil Shaker , Wafaa Mohammed Ahmed Ashor - Cairo : Ashraf Abdelhady Zaky Abdelhady , 2012 - 133P. : charts , facsimiles ; 25cm

Thesis (M.Sc.) - Cairo University - Faculty of Medicine - Department of Chest Diseases and Tuberculosis

Pleural effusion is a common clinical problem which differentiated into transudates and exudated according to Light's criteria , based on the protein and lactate dehydrogenase levels in pleural fluid and serum . The angiopoietins are protein growth factors that promote angiogenesis . There are new four identified angiopoietins Ang 1 , Ang 2 , Ang 3 and Ang 4



Exudated Pleural effusion Transudates