Tracheal aspirate
Soluble Vascular Endothelial Growth Factor Receptor 1 in Tracheal Aspirate Fluid of Preterm Neonates at Birth May Be Predictive of Bronchopulmonary Dysplasia/Chronic Lung Disease
... Although the role of VEGF in the development of BPD/CLD has been extensively studied, its longitudinal characterization in relation to endogenous soluble re- ceptors has not been examined previously in preterm infants ...
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Low Levels of Tissue Inhibitors of Metalloproteinases With a High Matrix Metalloproteinase-9/Tissue Inhibitor of Metalloproteinase-1 Ratio Are Present in Tracheal Aspirate Fluids of Infants Who Develop Chronic Lung Disease
... MMP-2 and MMP-9, as well as their specific inhib- itors TIMP-2 and TIMP-1, respectively, were de- tected in all of the tracheal aspirate samples. Serial measurements from the same patients showed great ...
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Early Postnatal Dexamethasone Decreases Hepatocyte Growth Factor in Tracheal Aspirate Fluid From Premature Infants
... of tracheal aspirate fluid (TAF) samples, the concentration of the secretory component of immunoglobulin A (IgA-SC) was determined by direct enzyme-linked immunosor- bent assay, after which HGF/IgA-SC and ...
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Isolation of Tracheal Aspirate Mesenchymal Stromal Cells Predicts Bronchopulmonary Dysplasia
... of tracheal aspirate samples taken, and days of endotracheal intubation (up to 7 days), and simultaneous mu- tual adjustment of these odds for each other were specified a ...whose aspirate samples ...
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Antibiogram of bacterial isolates From, Tracheal aspirate of ICU patients at tertiary care hospital in western, Rajasthan, India
... This project was carried during a period of 4 months from January to April 2015 in the department of microbiology, M.D.M. hospital, Dr. S.N. Medical College, Jodhpur, Rajasthan. Patient admitted to MDM Trauma ICU, ...
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Measuring (1,3) β D glucan in tracheal aspirate, bronchoalveolar lavage fluid, and serum for detection of suspected Candida pneumonia in immunocompromised and critically ill patients: a prospective observational study
... endotracheal aspirate or bronchoalveolar lavage were highest in suspected Candida pneumonia, while the serum D-glucan level was highest in non- Candida ...endotracheal aspirate was positively correlated ...
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Increased Leukocyte Elastase of the Tracheal Aspirate at Birth and Neonatal Pulmonary Emphysema
... chronic lung disease; CLD-UE, unexplained chronic lung disease; RDS, respiratory distress syndrome; BPD, bronchopulmonary dysplasia; WMS, Wilson-Mikity syndrome.. t Significantly differe[r] ...
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Genotyping and Coalescent Phylogenetic Analysis of Pneumocystis jiroveci from South Africa
... The 95% parsimony distance matrix and the resultant sta- tistical parsimony network are shown in Table 2 and Fig. 3, respectively. Coalescence suggests that the major ancestral haplotype is Eg, which radiates ...
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Elevated platelet-derived growth factor-BB concentrations in premature neonates who develop chronic lung disease
... Pulmonary hemorrhage was associated with an increased risk of CLD and was associated with increased TA concentrations of PDGF-BB. This is similar to our earlier report of increased MCP-1 and IL-8 concentrations in ...
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Interleukin-4 and 13 concentrations in infants at risk to develop Bronchopulmonary Dysplasia
... All studies of this nature suffer from limitations inherent in their design. Tracheal aspirate cytokine concentrations may not reflect what is happening at the alveolus or inter- stitium of the lung. In ...
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A descriptive study to determine the bacterial flora and antibiotic sensitivity of lower respiratory tract in tracheostomised patients
... These results were comparable to the present study. The third culture of tracheal aspirate was done 3 weeks after the tracheostomy when the patients came for follow up. About 41 (82%) patients yielded no ...
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Management of Neonates With Suspected or Proven Early-Onset Bacterial Sepsis
... early-onset sepsis, antimicrobial therapy, group B streptococcus, meningitis, gastric aspirate, tracheal aspirate, chorioamnionitis, sepsis screen, blood culture, lumbar puncture, urine [r] ...
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Vancomycin resistance in Staphylococcus haemolyticus causing colonization and bloodstream infection
... haemolyticus obtained from patient 1 throat, stool, blood, and tracheal aspirate and nine epidemiologically unrelated patients patients 2 to 10; all nosocomial bloodstream isolates were [r] ...
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Pulmonary Endostatin Perinatally and in Lung Injury of the Newborn Infant
... the tracheal aspirate sample was calculated by use of concentration of secre- tory component of IgA (IgA-SC) in tracheal aspirate ...in tracheal aspirates is independent of respiratory ...
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Pepsin, a Marker of Gastric Contents, Is Increased in Tracheal Aspirates From Preterm Infants Who Develop Bronchopulmonary Dysplasia
... 256 tracheal aspirate samples were collected from 59 preterm ...the tracheal aspirate ...in tracheal aspirate samples from the first 7 days was also lower in infants with no ...
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Emerging antimicrobial resistance in early and late-onset neonatal sepsis
... Endotracheal aspirate (ETA) cultures were occasionally obtained from mechanically ventilated cases if they displayed clinical signs suggestive of ventilator associated pneumonia such as increased oxygen ...
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A STUDY OF RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE AND MOLECULAR CHARACTERISTICS OF ESCHERICHIA COLI ISOLATES OBTAINED FROM DIFFERENT HUMAN CLINICAL SPECIMENS AGAINST MULTIPLE ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE (MAR) INDEX IN BAREILLY (INDIA) REGION
... endo-tracheal aspirate were screened for their antibiograms for antibiotic resistance, multiple antibiotic resistance (MAR) index for evaluating the spread of resistance and plasmid profiles for the ...
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The evaluation and surgical management of post-intubation tracheal strictures at a thoracic surgery referral centre in South Africa
... underwent tracheal stricture resection and end-to-end reconstruction, either via a cervical approach (Figs 2 and 3) or via a thoracic approach (Figs 4 and 5), using techniques of tracheal ...
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Value of examination of the gastric aspirate for the diagnosis of neonatal infection
... Gastric contents were aspirated within 6 hours of birth using a sterile feeding tube and glass syringe. This time factor is important because the pH of the gastric juice is alkaline at birth and the increasing acidity of ...
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PATTERN OF HEMATOLOGICAL DISORDERS ON BONE MARROW ASPIRATE EXAMINATION
... Material & Methods: This study was conducted at Bacha Khan Medical College Diagnostic Laboratory, Mardan, Pakistan from April 2013 to September 2015. All patients referred for bone marrow aspirations were included in ...
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