Evaluation of pyruvate kinase and oxidative stress parameters in differentiation between transudate and exudate in pleural liquids

Abstract

We aimed to investigate the usability of pleural pyruvate kinase (PK), total antioxidant status (TAS), and total oxidant status (TOS) as an alternative to Light’s criteria in exudate-transudate differentiation.

Keywords

• pleural effusion
• pyruvate kinase
• total antioxidant status
• total oxidant status
• transudate-exudate