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.

Paracentesis improves ascites in 90 percent of people, but the fluid can come back. You may need to take medicine or have a drain in your body long-term to prevent ascites again.

During paracentesis decreases in intra-abdominal, inferior-vena-cava and negative wedge pressures were observed, and their decreases appear directly related to the paracentesis.

Aug. 23, 2004 — Large-volume paracentesis performed by gastrointestinal endoscopy assistants in an outpatient setting is safe and efficient, even in patients with marked thrombocytopenia or ...

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 ...

Paracentesis for malignant ascites is usually performed as an in-patient procedure, with a median length of stay (LoS) of 3–5 days, with intermittent clamping of the drain due to a perceived ...

HONOLULU — Researchers found that patients with spontaneous bacterial peritonitis who underwent repeat diagnostic paracentesis showed improvement in ascites absolute neutrophil count, according ...

So you need to do a diagnostic paracentesis in the correct area, and if you do, as Elliot says, there absolutely are no contraindications based on thrombocytopenia and high INR.

Correspondence Archive Effect of Paracentesis on Hemodynamics Published May 25, 1967 N Engl J Med 1967;276: 1210 ...

WASHINGTON, DC — For patients with acute-on-chronic liver failure (ACLF) undergoing modest-volume paracentesis for ascites, oral midodrine may be an alternative to intravenous albumin for ...

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 ...