Naslov
Lactate and glucose in cerebrospinal fluid heavily contaminated with blood

Autori
Begovac, J ; Baće, A ; Soldo, I ; Lehpamer, B

Izvornik
Acta medica Croatica (1330-0164) 45 (1991); 341-345

Vrsta, podvrsta i kategorija rada
Radovi u časopisima, članak, stručni

Ključne riječi
blood ; cerebrospinal fluid ; glucose ; lactate

Sažetak
To simulate a traumatic lumbar puncture, blood was added to 33 normal cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) specimens. A hypothesis was tested if the CSF glucose and CSF lactate were unchanged after contamination with blood. Lactate and glucose here measured in both normal and blood- stained CSF. The estimated contamination of the normal CSF with red cells ranged from 84000 to 676500 cells per cubic millimeter. CSF lactate was unchanged by the addition of blood (P = 0.8), whereas CSF glucose was significantly higher in the blood-stained CSF (P = 0.0005). Therefore, the determination of lactate levels in the CSF heavily contaminated with blood could be useful in differentiating viral from bacterial meningitis

Izvorni jezik
Engleski

Znanstvena područja
Kliničke medicinske znanosti

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