Cytology of ascitic fluid

What tests are done for ascitic fluid?
Cell counts, bacterial culture, and polymerase chain reaction (PCR) Non-biochemical tests of ascitic fluid, including cell counts, bacterial culture, and PCR, play an important role in diagnosing the cause of ascites, especially in infectious ascites..
Ascitic fluid will have a culture, gram stain and cell count.
If requested, mycobacterial (TB) culture and microscopy for acid fast bacilli can also be performed.
Note: if you are sending an ascitic fluid that is urgent, please contact the laboratory prior to sending.
Paracentesis is a procedure performed to obtain a small sample of or drain ascitic fluid for both diagnostic or therapeutic purposes. [1][2][3] A needle or catheter is inserted into the peritoneal cavity and ascitic fluid is removed for diagnostic or therapeutic purposes.

Ascites Fluid Cytology. The sensitivity of peritoneal cytology for detection of malignant cells varies from 48 to 88% for patients undergoing primary laparotomy

What are non-biochemical tests of ascitic fluid?

Non-biochemical tests of ascitic fluid, including:

cell counts
bacterial culture
PCR
play an important role in diagnosing the cause of ascites
especially in infectious ascites

What causes peritoneal ascites?

Ascites is the accumulation of ascitic fluid in the peritoneal cavity.
Many diseases can cause ascites, but the most common cause is portal hypertension, which is usually due to liver cirrhosis.
Ascites does not typically become clinically detectable until there are at least 500mLs of fluid present.

What is chylous ascites?

Case Rep Hematol. 2016;2016:4625819. doi:

1155/2016/4625819. [ PMC free article] [ PubMed] [ Google Scholar] Chylous ascites (CA) is a rare form of ascites that results from the leakage of lipid-rich lymph into the peritoneal cavity.

Cytology of ascitic fluid

What tests are done for ascitic fluid?

What are non-biochemical tests of ascitic fluid?

What causes peritoneal ascites?

What is chylous ascites?