Paracentesis is a medical procedure that drains fluid from a person’s abdominal cavity. Doctors can use it to treat ascites and diagnose other conditions.

Having a tube to drain the fluid (paracentesis) Your doctor can put a small tube into your abdomen to drain off the fluid. This is called an abdominal paracentesis (pronounced para-sen-tee-sis). It ...

Decompression of the distended, fluid-filled peritoneal cavity by paracentesis resulted in a progressive lowering of the intra-abdominal pressure to 83 per cent of the control level after 1000 ml ...

To the Editor: In the article, "Hemodynamics in the Cirrhotic Patient during Paracentesis." which appeared in the March 2 issue of the Journal, Knauer and Lowe report on circulatory changes occurr ...

Large-volume paracentesis is a treatment used to remove excess fluid in the abdominal cavity resulting from such conditions as cirrhosis of the liver or cardiac failure. It is normally performed ...

Mean duration of the procedure was less than two hours (mean, 97 minutes ± 24 minutes), with a mean 8.7 L &± 2.8 L of ascitic fluid removed at a rate of approximately 1 L every six minutes. The ...

During follow-up, 37 patients did not require large volume paracentesis after system implantation and the overall frequency of large volume paracenteses decreased from 2.17 (95% CI, 1.45-4.34) in ...

(HealthDay)—For patients admitted with diagnoses of cirrhosis and ascites, paracentesis is associated with decreased in-hospital mortality but is underutilized, according to a study published ...

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Patients with ACLF, however, have paracentesis with much lower fluid volumes, typically with less than 5 liters removed, and may be good candidates for midodrine. Study Details.