Introduction: Diagnosing the etiology of pleural effusion is sometimes a challenging medical problem, and there is an urgent need to identify new fluid markers to differentiate malignant from non malignant pieuraI effusion. The aim of this study was to determine the characteristics of VEGF, glucose, LOH, and protein level in diagnosing of pIeurai effusion. Methods: Design ofthis study was obs…
Tuberculosis remains as a major health problem in South East Asia as well as Indonesia. The failure of tuberculosis treatment is mostly due to drop-out and multiple drugs resistant. Previous study showed that vitamin D increase the intracellular cathelicidin which has potency to kill the Mycobacterium tubeculosis. This research was aimed to identify the effect of vitamin D as supportive treatme…
Dutch study shows that Upar expression content is significantly in tuberculosis patient’s psiphsy monosit compared to those in the healthy control. So far, there is biologic marker used which can accurately observe response improvement in the treatment of lung tuberculosis. The aim of this research is to investigate whether the serum level of soluble utokinase plasminogen activator (suPAR) ca…