What's the difference between abdominocentesis and paracentesis?
Abdominocentesis
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Paracentesis
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(n.) The perforation of a cavity of the body with a trocar, aspirator, or other suitable instrument, for the evacuation of effused fluid, pus, or gas; tapping.
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(1) Patients with pleural effusion, pneumothorax, or ascites showed a significant increase in plasma arginine vasopressin levels, and thoracocentesis or paracentesis resulted in a decrease in these levels.
(2) The onset of ascites (as an index of sodium retention) in cirrhotic rats was estimated by sequential paracentesis.
(4) Several studies have shown that therapeutic paracentesis plus i.v.
(5) Diagnostic and therapeutic recommendations for suspected gram-negative endophthalmitis are presented and include: immediate paracentesis of the eye for gram stain and culture, systemic therapy with an antibiotic such as gentamicin and either subconjunctival, subtenon or intraocular injection of antibiotics.
(6) Catheter insertion or paracentesis guided by computed tomography has been used to accomplish nonoperative drainage of symptomatic postoperative mediastinal effusion in six cases.
(7) These results indicate that hemaccel infusion may safely replace albumin infusion after total paracentesis for cirrhotic patients with refractory ascites.
(8) To assess the risk of development of spontaneous bacterial peritonitis in relation to ascitic fluid opsonic activity, routine admission abdominal paracentesis was performed on 119 patients during 141 hospitalizations.
(9) Paracentesis proved important in cases of haemoperitoneum.
(10) This reliable diagnostic method is completely harmless and less traumatic than paracentesis.
(11) It has been recently reported that repeated large volume paracentesis (LVP) is a safe and efficacious procedure to treat cirrhotics with tense ascitis.
(12) A prospective study of the use of abdominal paracentesis in the diagnosis of suspected ectopic pregnancy was carried out.
(13) These results confirm the relevance of the quickly performable and complicationless suprapubic paracentesis of the bladder as diagnostic method.
(14) In cases of doubt paracentesis abdominis was performed to determine whether there was blood in the peritoneal cavity.
(15) Several therapeutic pathways are possible for the treatment of this complication (paracentesis, reinfusion of chyle, diuretics, total parenteral hyperalimentation, medium-chain triglyceride diet, peritoneovenous shunt, operative closure) and the choice results in an association which is specific for each patient.
(16) Paracentesis was repeated if evidence of peritonitis developed during the hospitalization.
(17) An in vitro culture technique, "living cytology", was used in a single-blind study to study 36 paracentesis and 7 intracystic fluid specimens for possible adenocarcinomatosis.
(18) In 33 children, median age 4 years, with bilateral secretory otitis, adenoidectomy was performed, a grommet was inserted in the right ear, and paracentesis was done on the left side.
(19) Paracentesis of the anterior chamber was done in two cases and revealed Staphylococcus albus to be the causative organism in both instances.
(20) Pericardial paracentesis confirmed the presence of effusion and relieved cardiac tamponade in all the patients.