Table 2.
Pathology agreement with clinical markers. Values are expressed as mean (SD) for normally distributed variables and mean (interquartile range) for nonnormally distributed variables.
| UPE | CPE/empyema | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Clinical-pathologic agreement (N = 18) |
Clinical-pathologic disagreement (N = 42) |
p | Clinical-pathologic agreement (N = 60) | Clinical-pathologic disagreement (N = 17) | p | |
| Pleural LDH (U/mL) | 327.57 [141, 574] | 307.24 [100, 443] | 0.73 | 2039.94 [487, 2947] | 3780 [640, 2215] | 0.11 |
| Pleural glucose (mg/dL) | 89.31 [75, 109] | 100.63 [80, 110.5] | 0.28 | 32.79 [1, 43] | 56.5 [1, 40] | 0.25 |
| Pleural pH | 7.49 [7.41, 7.61] | 7.47 [7.36, 7.56] | 0.58 | 6.97 [6.82, 7.20] | 7.21 [6.90, 7.35] | 0.11 |
| Pleural culture positive (%) | —- | —- | —- | 69.8 (46.5) | 42.9 (51.3) | 0.07 |
| Pleural pus (%) | —- | —- | —- | 44.2 (7.6) | 28.6 (12.1) | 0.30 |