Lavage fluid
Fibronectin in human bronchopulmonary lavage fluid Elevation in patients with interstitial lung disease
... bronchoalveolar lavage fluid of normals (11/11), as well as those with noninterstitial lung diseases (18/18), idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis (21/21), sarcoidosis (20/20), and other interstitial lung diseases ...
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Detection of Circulating gp43 Antigen in Serum, Cerebrospinal Fluid, and Bronchoalveolar Lavage Fluid of Patients with Paracoccidioidomycosis
... Cerebrospinal fluid from 14 patients with neuroparacoccidioidomycosis and 13 samples of bronchoalveolar lavage fluid from patients with pulmonary unifocal PCM were also tested for gp43 detection, ...
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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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Acute lung injury Pathogenesis of intraalveolar fibrosis
... activity. Lavage cell supernates from both patients and controls were devoid of ...in lavage fluid from nearly every patient, whereas little or none was present in fluid from ...
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Diagnostic performance of measuring antibodies to the glycopeptidolipid core antigen specific to Mycobacterium avium complex in patients with rheumatoid arthritis: results from a cross sectional observational study
... Results: Ten patients were newly diagnosed with MAC-PD. Eight individuals who already had diagnoses of MAC-PD at the time of enrollment and nineteen who had negative expectorated sputum cultures for MAC and positive CT ...
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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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Utility of Serum and Bronchoalveolar Lavage Fluid Galactomannan in Diagnosis of Chronic Pulmonary Aspergillosis
... ABSTRACT The value of serum and bronchoalveolar lavage fluid galactomannan (BALF-GM) in diagnosing chronic pulmonary aspergillosis (CPA) remains unclear. Here, we study the diagnostic efficacy of GM in the diagnosis ...
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Serotype distribution and antibiotic resistance of Streptococcus pneumoniae isolates from 17 Chinese cities from 2011 to 2016
... This study was conducted at the Peking University Peo- ple ’ s Hospital, a teaching hospital located in Beijing, China. A total of 881 S. pneumoniae isolates were col- lected from pediatric and adult patients with ...
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Detection of tissue kallikrein in the bronchoalveolar lavage fluid of asthmatic subjects
... BAL fluid correlated with the presence of kininogenase activity (P = ...BAL fluid kininogenase (a dominant 65,000-mol wt fragment), and synthetic inhibitor profile (phe-phe- arg-CH2Cl and ...
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Molecular Detection and Species Specific Identification of Medically Important Aspergillus Species by Real Time PCR in Experimental Invasive Pulmonary Aspergillosis
... The lavage fluid was then centrifuged for 10 min at 400 ⫻ ...BAL fluid and 100 l of a dilution (10 ⫺1 ) of this fluid were cultured on 5% SGA ...BAL fluid were obtained from archived ...
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Type XVIII collagen degradation products in acute lung injury
... plasma/bronchoalveolar lavage fluid of patients with acute lung injury and ascertain whether the levels reflect the severity of injury and alveolar inflammation, and to assess if endostatin changes occur ...
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Angiopoietin-1 enhances neutrophil chemotaxis in vitro and migration in vivo through interaction with CD18 and release of CCL4
... Role of CCL4 (MIP-1β) in MAT.Ang-1-induced neutrophil migration. Investigation into inflam- matory mediators present in the lavage fluid collected 4 h after i.p. injection of MAT.Ang-1 compared to saline ...
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High Mycoplasma pneumoniae loads and persistent long term Mycoplasma pneumoniae DNA in lower airway associated with severity of pediatric Mycoplasma pneumoniae pneumonia
... bronchoalveolar lavage fluid (BALF, MP loads > 10 5 copies/mL) samples after 30 days of the dis- ease course; 12 of 15 samples were positive, suggesting active MP ...
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Development and optimization of quantitative PCR for the diagnosis of invasive aspergillosis with bronchoalveolar lavage fluid
... Tables 3 and 4 show information about the false positive and false negative cases as identified by qPCR. Some patients did not meet standard criteria for IPA, but had consistently high levels of Aspergillus DNA in BAL ...
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Clara cell protein in bronchoalveolar lavage fluid: a predictor of ventilator associated pneumonia?
... BAL fluid samples obtained from patients who had under- gone mechanical ventilation for more than 48 hours and were clinically suspected of having ...subsequent lavage were performed prior to new antibiotic ...
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Soluble urokinase type plasminogen activator receptor levels in patients with burn injuries and inhalation trauma requiring mechanical ventilation: an observational cohort study
... lung lavage was performed on ICU admission and on alter- nate days throughout the period of mechanical ventila- ...Lung lavage was performed by instilling 20 ml of sterile ...period, fluid was ...
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Transplacental stimulation of lung development in the fetal rabbit by 3,5 dimethyl 3' isopropyl L thyronine
... The effect of thyroid hormone on maturation of fetal rabbit lung was studied with maternal treatment using 3,5-dimethyl-3'-isopropyl-L-thyronine (DIMIT), a synthetic analogue of triiodothyronine. To investigate the in ...
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Point Counterpoint: Quantitative Cultures of Bronchoscopically Obtained Specimens Should Be Performed for Optimal Management of Ventilator Associated Pneumonia
... BAL fluid cultures is based on preanalytical fac- tors and basic principles of good laboratory ...of fluid both instilled and retrieved, the mathematical relationship between bacterial load detected in ...
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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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Increasing the inspiratory time and I:E ratio during mechanical ventilation aggravates ventilator induced lung injury in mice
... and operation procedures were identical in all groups. Intrathoracic pressure directly affects cardiac function (for an excellent review, see [26,27]), and increased intrathoracic pressure due to increased I:E ratio may ...
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