TY - JOUR T1 - The Comparison of Total Protein of Ascites Fluid with Serum Ascites Albumin Gradient as Criterion in the Differential Diagnosis of Ascites TT - مقایسه ضابطه پروتئین توتال و اختلاف آلبومین سرم از آلبومین مایع آسیت( گرادیان آلبومین سرم ـ آسیت ) بعنوان تشخیص افتراقی مایع آسیت JF - umsha JO - umsha VL - 6 IS - 2 UR - http://sjh.umsha.ac.ir/article-1-993-en.html Y1 - 1999 SP - 0 EP - 0 KW - Ascitics Fluid / Ascitics Fluid Total Protein / Serum Albumin N2 - A total 97 paired serum & ascites fluid samples from ascitic patients were collected and analyzed. The utility of the serum - ascites albumin gradient & the exudate transudate concept as defined by ascitic fluid total protein concentration (A.F.T.P) were compared. 46 patients were suffering from liver cirrhosis (47.4%) & 43 patients (93.5%) from this group had AFTP < 2.5 g/dl . Albumin gradient in the same patients was > 1.1 g/dl . In 10 patients (100%) with ascites due to malignancy AFTP > 2.5 g/dl ,and in 50% of the patients in this group albumin gradient > 1.1 g/dl and in the rest of the patients (50%) with malignant ascites albumin gradient was < 1.1 g/dl. Only in diagnosis of malignant ascites AFTP was preferred to albumin gradient in our research but in other cases it was not any superiority between the tow concepts. M3 ER -