...Vasilios Tzilas; Antonia Digalaki; Evangelos Bouros; Eleni Avdoula; Argyrios Tzouvelekis; Demosthenes Bouros Background: Interstitial lung diseases (ILDs) are extremely challenging in terms of diagnosis. Extreme bronchoalveolar lavage (BAL) lymphocytosis is thought to strongly point towards...

... bronchoscopy COVID-19 Bronchoalveolar lavage The development of disposable or single-use flexible bronchoscopes (SUFBs) has accelerated in recent years. SUFBs were initially developed for the intensive care unit (ICU) environment, particularly for intubation, difficult airway management, suction...

... transplant (HSCT) recipients. While detection of infection and initiation of appropriate antimicrobial therapy improves survival, present techniques oftentimes do not detect infections in bronchoalveolar lavage (BAL) samples because of pretreatment with antimicrobial therapies and the need for a priori...

...Marc B. Feinstein; Imnett Habtes; Sergio Giralt; Diane E. Stover Background: Pulmonary complications are common among hematologic stem cell transplant (HSCT) recipients. Their evaluation can be pursued through bronchoscopy with bronchoalveolar lavage (BAL) and a variety of available noninvasive...

... lung disease including standardized questionnaires, serologic testing, and cellular analysis of bronchoalveolar lavage. High-resolution computed tomography remains crucial in the diagnostic workup. If it is necessary to obtain specimens for histology, transbronchial lung cryobiopsy is the primary...

...Filippo Patrucco; Carlo Albera; Michela Bellocchia; Valentina Foci; Francesco Gavelli; Luigi Mario Castello; Mattia Bellan; Pier Paolo Sainaghi; Chiara Airoldi; Piero Emilio Balbo; Paolo Solidoro Background: Bronchoscopy with bronchoalveolar lavage (BAL) during the SARS-CoV-2 (Severe Acute...

...Luis M. Seijo; Javier Flandes; Maria V. Somiedo; Alba Naya; Josefina Manjón; Susana Álvarez; Iker Fernández-Navamuel Background: Bronchoalveolar lavage (BAL) may be performed using a hand-held syringe or wall suction. Objectives: The aim was to study BAL volume and diagnostic yields based on BAL...

...+ lymphocytes in pulmonary sarcoidosis originate from redistribution from the peripheral blood to the lung, and therefore do not bear the CD103 integrin. Some data suggest that a low CD103+ percentage among bronchoalveolar lavage fluid (BALF) CD4+ lymphocytes discriminates between sarcoidosis and other...

...Ágnes Papp; Zsolt Bene; Imre Gáspár; Béla Nagy Jr.; László Kádár; Tivadar Márialigeti; Andrea Bánfi; György Baktai; György Balla; Béla Nagy Background: A decreased level of vascular endothelial growth factor (VEGF) was previously described in bronchoalveolar lavage fluid (BALF) of adults...

... a BMS differed from those obtained by bronchoalveolar lavage (BAL) in stable and acute lung disease. Methods: In a single-centre, prospective observational cohort study of 45 patients, a sequential BMS probe procedure and BAL were performed on patients with stable chronic obstructive lung disease...

...: Bronchoalveolar lavage (BAL) is routinely performed in these patients to rule out infection, so we sought to determine the BAL cellular pattern in individuals with mAB-induced lung disease (mAB-ILD). Methods: We utilized a case-control study design. Among patients treated with mAB, cases were defined as those...

...M. Sezai Tasbakan; Alev Gurgun; Ozen K. Basoglu; Pervin K. Ekren; Husnu Pullukcu; Feza Bacakoglu Background: Pneumonia is a major cause of morbidity and mortality in immunocompromised patients. Bronchoalveolar lavage (BAL) is commonly used to help diagnose and characterize pneumonia...

.... Pulmonary hemorrhage Renal diseases Bronchoalveolar lavage What Is Your Diagnosis? Respiration 2010;79:511 515 DOI: 10.1159/000282170 Received: September 8, 2009 Accepted after revision: December 14, 2009 Published online: February 5, 2010 Diffuse Alveolar Infiltrates and Macroscopic Hematuria: A Run...

... and macrophage inflammatory protein-2 concentrations in bronchoalveolar lavage fluid (BALF) and higher lung PAI-1 mRNA expression and plasma active PAI-1 levels than did the control group. Administration of APC tended to reduce the BALF protein content and systemic PAI-1 activity but did not improve the lung...

...), while the number of LFA-1 expressed on neutrophils of the patients was nearly similar to that in the healthy volunteers (0.95 ± 0.10 vs. 0.89 ± 0.11). The neutrophil numbers in bronchoalveolar lavage fluid and the number of Mac-1 expressed on peripheral neutrophils significantly decreased in all...

...M. von Eiff; N. Roos; R. Schulten; M. Hesse; M. Zühlsdorf; J. van de Loo Bronchoscopy obtaining bronchoalveolar lavage (BAL) fluid and bronchial secretions (BS) and/or high-resolution computed tomography (CT) of the lungs were performed in 33 patients with pulmonary aspergillosis from 1987 to 1992...

... present a case of lymphoma of the lung in which DNA analysis of bronchoalveolar lavage fluid was the first successful method in the time course of diagnosis. 9 09 1994 24 04 1995 21 1 2009 © 1995 S. Karger AG, Basel 1995 Copyright / Drug Dosage / Disclaimer Copyright: All rights...

...T. Fujishima; Y. Honda; N. Shijubo; H. Takahashi; S. Abe Pulmonary alveolar proteinosis (PAP) is a rare disease in which alveoli are filled with lipoproteinaceous materials. We measured carcinoembryonic antigen (CEA) concentrations in bronchoalveolar lavage (BAL) fluids and sera from patients...

... smokers and non-smokers, both in lung parenchyma and in bronchoalveolar lavage (BAL) fluid. BAL fluid was recovered in 21 individuals. Quantification of FN in BAL was done by a non-competitive ELISA. Twenty-six lung parenchyma samples were also obtained from lung resections. FN was extracted with urea...

...Wei Dong Song; An Cheng Zhang; Yu Ying Pang; Li Hua Liu; Jing Yun Zhao; Shu Hua Deng; Shi Yuan Zhang Fibronectin (FN) and hyaluronan (HA) in bronchoalveolar lavage fluid (BALF) and FN released by alveolar macrophages (AM) were examined in 7 nonsmoking healthy control subjects, and 20 smoking...