VEGF Correlates with Inflammation and Fibrosis in Tuberculous Pleural Effusion

Table 3

Correlation among angiogenic cytokines, fibrinolytic parameters, pleural fluid characteristics, and effusion CXR scores.

	pH	Glucose	LDH	Leukocyte count	PAI-1	tPA	PAI-1/tPA ratio	Effusion CXR score
Loculated TBPE ( = 26)
IL-8	−0.42^*	−0.40^*	0.39^*	0.36	0.28	−0.40^*	0.42^*	0.21
VEGF	−0.57^†	−0.58^†	0.49^*	0.25	0.77^‡	−0.53^†	0.76^‡	0.63^‡
Effusion CXR score	−0.14	−0.12	−0.18	0.13	0.39^*	−0.22	0.12	—
Nonloculated TBPE ( = 16)
IL-8	−0.46	−0.48	0.55^*	0.28	0.24	−0.62^†	0.59^*	0.32
VEGF	−0.52^*	−0.56^*	0.67^†	0.17	0.59^*	−0.44^*	0.43^*	0.47^*
Effusion CXR score	−0.22	−0.29	−0.11	0.29	0.21	−0.11	0.10	—

See Table 2 for definition of the abbreviations.
^*Correlation is statistically significant at the level of 0.05.
^†Correlation is statistically significant at the level of 0.01.
^‡Correlation is statistically significant at the level of 0.001.