title: Serum adenosine deaminase in pulmonary tuberculosis, malignancy and non-tubercular respiratory diseases.
abstract: The study has been conducted to find out the serum ADA levels in 120 patients with various pulmonary diseases which included patients with tubercular pleural effusion (n = 86), lung cancer (n = 10) and patients with non-tubercular pulmonary diseases like pneumonia, etc (n = 24). Twenty healthy individuals served as control subjects. The mean (+/- SD) of ADA activity was 23.38 (4.47), 7.29 (1.08), 12.71 (1.95) and 2.23 (1.00) units/litre in tuberculosis, malignancy, non-tubercular pulmonary diseases and healthy controls respectively with significant difference between each other (P less than 0.001). Patients with tuberculosis (100%) fall in 97% sensitivity range with a lower cut off limit at 17 units/litre ADA activity, while for malignancy and non-tubercular respiratory diseases, the sensitivity was 90% and 83% respectively. Within the sensitivity limits, the serum ADA activity can be used for the differential diagnosis of pulmonary diseases.
authors.affiliation: Department of Biochemistry, G.S.V.M. Medical College, Kanpur.
authors.forename: S K
authors.initials: SK
authors.lastname: Bansal
authors.forename: R P
authors.initials: RP
authors.lastname: Singh
authors.forename: R K
authors.initials: RK
authors.lastname: Narang
authors.forename: L D
authors.initials: LD
authors.lastname: Joshi
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Bansal
authors.forename: A K
authors.initials: AK
authors.lastname: Agrawal
mesh_terms: D000243:Adenosine Deaminase / Q000097:blood*; D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008171:Lung Diseases / Q000201:enzymology*; D008175:Lung Neoplasms / Q000201:enzymology*; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D014397:Tuberculosis, Pulmonary / Q000201:enzymology*
chemical_list: D000243:Adenosine Deaminase