title: Diagnostic value of the paracoagulation protamine sulphate test (PSt) in the pulmonary diseases more frequently encountered in the clinical practice.
abstract: A single diluted protamine sulphate test has been employed by the Authors in several respiratory diseases in order to define its diagnostic usefulness. Such a test, easily performed in all clinical chemistry laboratories and very cheap, has resulted to be positive mostly in the pleuropulmonary pathology following microembolic spread to the lung (pulmonary infarction), with a higher significance the earlier the test has been made. The test has appeared to be also able to differentiate infarctual active pleurites (positive) from tubercular eudates and transudates (negative).
mesh_terms: D001780:Blood Coagulation Tests; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008171:Lung Diseases / Q000175:diagnosis*; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D011479:Protamines
chemical_list: D011479:Protamines