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Análisis del líquido peritoneal - Results

Significado de los resultados anormales:

  • Líquido teñido de bilis que puede significar que usted tiene un problema con la vesícula biliar o el hígado.
  • Líquido con sangre que puede ser un signo de un tumor o lesión.
  • Conteos altos de glóbulos blancos que pueden ser un signo de peritonitis.
  • Líquido peritoneal de color lechoso que puede ser un signo de carcinoma, cirrosis hepática, linfoma, tuberculosis o infección.

Otros resultados anormales en el examen pueden deberse a un problema en los intestinos o en los órganos abdominales. Las grandes diferencias entre la cantidad de albúmina en el líquido peritoneal y en la sangre pueden apuntar hacia una insuficiencia cardiaca, hepática o renal; mientras que las pequeñas diferencias pueden ser un signo de cáncer o infección.

  • Reviewed last on: 2/4/2011
  • David C. Dugdale, III, MD, Professor of Medicine, Division of General Medicine, Department of Medicine, University of Washington School of Medicine; and George F Longstreth, MD, Department of Gastroenterology, Kaiser Permanente Medical Care Program San Diego, California. Also reviewed by David Zieve, MD, MHA, Medical Director, A.D.A.M., Inc.

Referencias

Garcia-Tsao G. Cirrhosis and its sequelae. In: Goldman L, Ausiello D, eds. Cecil Medicine. 23rd ed. Philadelphia, Pa: Saunders Elsevier; 2007:chap 157.

Runyon BA. Ascites and spontaneous bacterial peritonitis. In: Feldman M, Friedman LS, Brandt LJ, eds. Sleisenger and Fordtran's Gastrointestinal and Liver Disease. 9th ed. Philadelphia, Pa: Saunders Elsevier; 2010:chap 91.

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