OBJECTIVE To present aspects of the evolution of lipoid pneumonia in children, based on clinical, radiological and bronchoalveolar lavage fluid findings, emphasizing the importance of bronchoalveolar lavage for the diagnosis and treatment. METHODS We included 28 children, with a mean age of 20 months (range, 1-108 months), diagnosed with chronic pneumonia refractory to antimicrobial therapy, ...

Background and Objective. Bronchoalveolar coagulopathy is a characteristic feature of pulmonary inflammation. We compared bronchoalveolar and systemic levels of coagulation in patients who did and patients who did not develop ventilator-associated lung injury (VALI). Methods. Secondary analysis of a randomized controlled trial evaluating the effect of lower tidal volumes versus conventional tid...

The reported prevalence of interstitial lung disease in patients with rheumatoid arthritis has varied from 10% to 50%, yet less than 5% of patients with arthritis develop severe fibrosing interstitial lung disease. This suggests that subclinical disease may not always presage progressive disease. Bronchoalveolar lavage fluid from patients with rheumatoid arthritis and either clinically evident ...

The value of taking microbiological and cytological specimens by flexible bronchoscopy and bronchoalveolar lavage under local anaesthesia was assessed on 43 occasions in 35 HIV infected children, aged 3 months to 16 years, with interstitial pneumonitis. In acute interstitial pneumonitis (n = 22, 26 specimens from bronchoalveolar lavages) the microbiological yield was 73%, Pneumocystis carinii b...

Glossary BAL – Bronchoalveolar Lavage BALF – Bronchoalveolar Lavage Fluid cfu – colony forming unit EIPH – Exercise-Induced Pulmonary Hemorrhage IAD – Inflammatory Airway Disease LRT – Lower Respiratory Tract LRTI – Lower Respiratory Tract Inflammation NIAD – Non-infectious Inflammatory Airway Disease PAM – Pulmonary Alveolar Macrophage RAO – Recurrent Airway Obstruction SAD – Small Airway Dise...

Bronchoalveolar lavage was performed on a patient with disseminated strongyloidiasis and 4.5 X 10(7) cells/65 ml of lavage fluid were recovered. Eighty-five percent of cells were polymorphonuclear leukocytes; 15 percent were pulmonary alveolar macrophages. Rhabditiform larvae (1 X 10(4)) were recovered in 65 ml of lavage fluid. This is the first report of bronchoalveolar lavage used in diagnosi...

A 65 year old woman with a history of occupational talc inhalation presented with hypoxaemia, cough, and dyspnoea with a normal chest radiograph. Bronchoalveolar lavage showed considerable lymphocytosis, with a predominance of T8+ T lymphocytes, and open lung biopsy showed peribronchiolar granulomas containing talc crystals. Corticosteroid treatment resulted in dramatic improvement. Bronchoalve...

introduction: natural killer (nk) cells, of which cd56 is a specific marker, play an important role in host defense against tumors. cancer stem cells, of which aldehyde dehydrogenase isoform 1 (aldh1) is an immunohistochemical marker, are a group of tumorigenic cells which are involved in migration and tumor recurrences. we aimed to evaluate the expression of aldh1 and cd56 in common salivary g...

the aim of this study is to determine whether there is a role of podoplanin and glutathione s-transferases t1 (gst-t1) expression in laryngeal squamous cell carcinoma. the study was completed with 33 patients and gene expression analysis was performed by qrt–pcr. the podoplanin and gst-t1 expression patterns were analyzed to determine their correlation with clinicopathologic parameters of laryn...