BACKGROUND A study was undertaken to investigate the pathogenesis of pulmonary involvement in human T lymphotropic virus type I (HTLV-I) carriers. METHODS The bronchoalveolar lavage (BAL) cell profile of 30 HTLV-I carriers (15 asymptomatic HTLV-I carriers (AHCs) and 15 symptomatic HTLV-I carriers (SHCs)) with chronic inflammatory diseases of respiratory tract and eight patients with HTLV-I as...

27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 39 40 41 42 43 44 45 46 Pulmonary aspergillosis (PA) in non-immunocompromised hosts, although rare, is increasingly recognized. The diagnosis of PA is difficult, since recovery of Aspergillus from respiratory samples cannot differentiate colonization from invasion. We assessed the role of BAL galactomannan (GM) in diagnosing PA in 73 non-immunocompromised pat...

AIM The aim was to study the bronchoalveolar lavage (BAL) technique in evaluating the local immune response of pig immunized with Pasteurella multocida bacterin vaccine. MATERIALS AND METHODS Weaned piglets were immunized with formalin-inactivated P52 strain of P. multocida bacterin and evaluated for pulmonary immune response in BAL fluid. BAL was performed before vaccination and at different...

27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 39 40 41 42 43 44 45 46 Pulmonary aspergillosis (PA) in non-immunocompromised hosts, although rare, is increasingly recognized. The diagnosis of PA is difficult, since recovery of Aspergillus from respiratory samples cannot differentiate colonization from invasion. We assessed the role of BAL galactomannan (GM) in diagnosing PA in 73 non-immunocompromised pat...

OBJECTIVE Sarcoidosis is a multisystem granulomatous inflammatory disease of unknown etiology that mainly affects the lungs and lymph nodes. Bronchoalveolar lavage (BAL) is known to be useful in diagnosis of the disease but its value as a prognostic marker is unclear. The aim of this study was to assess whether there is a characteristic pattern in BAL cell counts according to radiographic stage...

Bu çal??mada Büyük Menderes Nehri’nde (Ayd?n) yakalanan Scardinius erythrophthalmus (k?z?lkanat) ve Anguilla anguilla (y?lan bal???) tatl? su bal??? türlerinin kas dokusundaki ya? asidi bile?imlerinin karakterize edilmesi ?3/?6 oranlar?n?n belirlenmesi amaçland?. Bal?klar?n doku örneklerinden elde edilen metil esterleri gaz kromatografisi (GC) ile analiz edildi. En bol bulunan doymu? asitleri S...

The appropriate treatment of ventilator-associated pneumonia (VAP) must be based on accurate diagnosis, which can be done by microbiological examination of the samples obtained from the respiratory tract by nonbronchoscopic bronchoalveolar lavages (NB-BAL). This study was designed to determine the effectiveness of NB-BAL in diagnosing VAP in newborns. Two hundred and seven NB-BAL samples were o...

Bronchoalveolar lavage (BAL) has been crucial in elucidating the immune effector cells involved in the inflammatory processes in idiopathic interstitial pneumonias [1]. Despite its value as a research tool, the diagnostic usefulness of BAL in idiopathic interstitial pneumonias is limited. An increase in neutrophils and/or eosinophils and/or lymphocytes may be seen. The idiopathic interstitial p...