Research Article
Prevalence, Clinical Presentation, and Outcome of Tuberculosis in Patients with Chronic Kidney Disease at a Tertiary Care Hospital in Nepal
Table 4
Analysis of body fluid in patients with TB and CKD.
| | Parameters (mean) | Pleural fluid (n = 12) | Ascitic fluid (n = 4) | Cerebrospinal fluid (n = 3) | Pericardial fluid (n = 4) |
| | Total leukocyte count per μL | 1835 ± 1825 | 583 ± 315 | 402 ± 647 | 4910 ± 4784 | | Polymorph (%) | 37 ± 21 | 27 ± 14 | 10 ± 17 | 21 ± 10 | | Monomorph (%) | 63 ± 21 | 73 ± 14 | 90 ± 17 | 71 ± 24 | | Protein (gm/L) | 33.3 ± 6.3 | 34 ± 7.8 | 29 ± 4.7 | 25.2 ± 5.6 | | LDH (U/L) | 522 ± 419 | 277 ± 67.5 | — | — | | Sugar (mmol/L) | 9 ± 5.8 | 7.5 ± 3.6 | 5.1 ± 1 | 10.4 ± 11.5 | | ADA (U/L) | 32.4 ± 22.8 | 28 ± 20 | 11 ± 3.7 | 31.2 ± 21 |
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