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Medicine Pleural effusion & Pulmonary alveolar proteinosis cd002662

Pleural effusion in rheumatoid ahritis is typically associated with all of the following features except?

A
Glucose > 620 mg/dl
B
Protein> 3 gm/dl
C
Pleural fluid protein to serum protein ratio of > 0.5
D
Pleural fluid LDH to serum LDH ratio of >0.6
High-Yield Explanation
Since Rheumatoid ahritis is an inflammatory disease, the rheumatoid effusion is an exudate and is known to have glucose of less than 60mg/dL. Malignancy and bacterial infections (empyema) can also present with low pleural fluid sugar.

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