Bronchoalveolar Lavage
CD8+ T lymphocytes in bronchoalveolar lavage in idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis
... Several studies ascribe a role to the inflammatory cells including neutrophils, macrophages, eosinophils and T lymphocytes (TLs) in the modulation of tissue injury in IPF [5-8]. Recently, we shown that in IPF tissue, ...
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Original Article Comparison of fresh bronchoalveolar lavage fluid samples with frozen bronchoalveolar lavage fluid samples of microbial community measures based on metagenomic data
... Abstract: Background: DNA from the host, and extraction biases can significantly interfere with microbiota assess- ment and increase the cost of high throughput sequencing. This study aimed to find a better method to ...
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Microbiota analysis optimization for human bronchoalveolar lavage fluid
... communities. Bronchoalveolar lavage fluid (BALF) enables the identification of microbiota specific to the lower lung but commonly has low bacterial density, increasing the risk of false-positive signal from ...
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Leukotriene A4 hydrolase in human bronchoalveolar lavage fluid
... We examined cell-free human bronchoalveolar lavage fluid (BALF) for enzymes of the 5- lipoxygenase pathway. BALF was obtained from six patients who were active smokers and six nonsmokers. Enzymatic activity ...
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ASSESSMENT OF BRONCHOALVEOLAR LAVAGE PEPSIN LEVEL IN IDIOPATHIC PULMONARY FIBROSIS
... The diagnosis of many aspiration events was reported in many barium swallow researches, but with limitations like aspiration must occur at the time of study and chronic microaspirates are not accurately detected[9]. One ...
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Proteomics of Bronchoalveolar Lavage Fluid Reveals a Lung Oxidative Stress Response in Murine Herpesvirus-68 Infection
... Analysis of bronchoalveolar lavage (BAL) fluid from MHV-68 infection of the mouse lung. 267[r] ...
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Use of nested PCR for the detection of trichomonads in bronchoalveolar lavage fluid
... to establish a sensitive molecular method to diagnose pulmonary trichomoniasis. However, doing so is further complicated by the fact that numerous trichomonad spe- cies can infect human lungs. Existing gene based methods ...
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Bronchoalveolar lavage for etiological diagnosis of childhood pneumonia
... Bronchoalveolar lavage is able to isolate the causative organism in most of the cases and has a significantly high yield when compared with blood culture and has a high diagnostic ...
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Bronchoalveolar lavage (BAL) for research; obtaining adequate sample yield
... We describe a research technique for fiberoptic bronchoscopy with bronchoalveolar lavage (BAL) using manual hand held suction in order to remove nonadherent cells and lung lining fluid f[r] ...
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Bronchoalveolar lavage cytological alveolar damage in patients with severe pneumonia
... Introduction Histological examination of lung specimens from patients with pneumonia shows the presence of desquamated pneumocytes and erythrophages. We hypothesized that these modifications should also be present in ...
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Efficacy of Bilateral Bronchoalveolar Lavage for Diagnosis of Ventilator Associated Pneumonia
... rates, bronchoalveolar lavage (BAL) fluid, protected-specimen brush (PSB) samples, and direct lung aspirates with cultures of lung homogenates and histological findings for mechanically ventilated baboons ...
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The clinical utility of bronchoalveolar lavage in diffuse parenchymal lung disease
... T he diagnostic and prognostic utility of bronchoalveolar lavage (BAL) was first evaluated in historical series in the 1980s, and endorsed by expert groups [1, 2]. However, much has changed in the last two ...
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Indicators for prediction of Mycobacterium tuberculosis positivity detected with bronchoalveolar lavage fluid
... Background: The diagnosis of active pulmonary tuberculosis (TB) remains a challenge in clinic, especially for sputum negative pulmonary TB. Bronchoalveolar lavage fluid (BALF) has higher sensitivity than ...
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Detection of Aspergillus species DNA in bronchoalveolar lavage samples by competitive PCR
... A competitive PCR assay involving the use of bronchoalveolar lavage (BAL) samples for the diagnosis of invasive pulmonary aspergillosis (IPA) was developed. For this purpose, a 1-kb mitochondrial DNA ...
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Translational Research in Pediatrics III: Bronchoalveolar Lavage
... choalveolar lavage fl uid: a speci fi c and sensitive method of diagnosing gastro- oesophageal re fl ux-related pulmonary as- ...in bronchoalveolar lavage fl uid of children without bronchopulmonary ...
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Immunophenotyping of Bronchoalveolar Lavage Lymphocytes
... Much of our understanding of the role of pulmonary lym- phocytes in host defense mechanisms and in disease comes from the study of lymphocytes recovered from the lung by bronchoalveolar lavage (BAL). BAL is ...
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Bronchoalveolar lavage fluid cytokine profiles in neuroendocrine cell hyperplasia of infancy and follicular bronchiolitis
... BAL: Bronchoalveolar lavage; BALF: Bronchoalveolar lavage fluid; CDA: Canonical discriminant analysis; CF: Cystic fibrosis; chILD: Children ’ s interstitial lung disease; DC: Disease control; ...
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Endotoxin markers in bronchoalveolar lavage fluid of patients with interstitial lung diseases
... The bronchoalveolar lavage fluid (BALf) from patients with interstitial lung diseases (sarcoidosis, lung fibrosis, smoking-related ILD, eosinophilic disorders) was analyzed for the markers of ...
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Efficacy and Biopsy Correlation of Bronchoalveolar Lavage Cytology in Diagnosis of Lung Pathology
... bronchoalveolar lavage cytology is a useful investigation for the diagnosis of a large number of pulmonary diseases. It is usually well tolerated by patients for whom more invasive techniques cannot be ...
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Accuracy and Precision of Quantitative Calibrated Loops in Transfer of Bronchoalveolar Lavage Fluid
... of bronchoalveolar lavage (BAL) fluid are important in the diagnosis of ventilator- associated pneumonia, and calibrated loops are commonly used to set up these ...
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