BACKGROUND Concerns remain about the safety of bronchoscopy in asthma and there are few data on the effect of this procedure on asthma control in the days or weeks following bronchoscopy. METHODS In an initial study of bronchoalveolar lavage and bronchial biopsies in asthmatic and control subjects, data on peak expiratory flow rates (PEFR) collected prospectively before and after the procedur...

BACKGROUND Bronchoscopy is a technique of visualizing the inside of the airways for diagnostic and therapeutic purposes. This study was performed to determine the complications of bronchoscopy in a tertiary health-care center. MATERIALS AND METHODS This study had as descriptive cross sectional design. Four hundred adult patients between 16 to 85 years, who underwent bronchoscopy with a same m...

INTRODUCTION Infantile hemangiomas of the airway are diagnosed at bronchoscopy as part of the investigation of stridor or other respiratory symptoms. Here, we present three-dimensional computed tomography (3D-CT)/bronchoscopy findings of submucosal subglottic hemangioma missed at bronchoscopy. CASE PRESENTATION We report on the clinical usefulness of 3D-CT/bronchoscopy as the primary diagnost...

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OBJECTIVE To demonstrate the possibilities, advantages and limitations of virtual bronchoscopy using data sets from positron emission tomography (PET) and computed tomography (CT). MATERIALS AND METHODS Eight consecutive patients with non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) underwent PET/CT. PET was performed with a glucose analog, 2-[fluorine-18]-fluoro-2-deoxy-D-glucose (18F-FDG), using a state-...

BACKGROUND Lidocaine is commonly used for topical anaesthesia during fibreoptic bronchoscopy (FOB) and it can cause methaemoglobinemia. The present study was undertaken to evaluate the severity of post-bronchoscopy methaemoglobinemia while using lidocaine as a topical anaesthetic agent. METHODS We prospectively studied consecutive adult patients who underwent diagnostic FOB in our institution...

In the world of medical literature, little has been reported about the fears of patients undergoing bronchoscopy. The aim of this study was to identify the common fears of patients undergoing fibreoptic bronchoscopy and to determine whether any factors might contribute to reducing these fears. One hundred and four consecutive patients undergoing bronchoscopy were interviewed. Sixty one patients...

Although histoplasmosis is the most common fungal infection of the lungs in the United States, there are no reports evaluating the efficacy of fiberoptic bronchoscopy in the diagnosis of this disease. We reviewed all cases of histoplasmosis diagnosed at our institution from 1972 to 1987. Of 469 patients, 71 underwent fiberoptic bronchoscopy and had culture/histologic proof of histoplasmosis est...

Introduction: Infantile hemangiomas of the airway are diagnosed at bronchoscopy as part of the investigation of stridor or other respiratory symptoms. Here, we present three-dimensional computed tomography (3D-CT)/bronchoscopy findings of submucosal subglottic hemangioma missed at bronchoscopy. Case Presentation: We report on the clinical usefulness of 3D-CT/bronchoscopy as the primary diagnost...

Bronchoscopes and the filters used for washing them were found to yield high numbers of Mycobacterium avium isolates sharing the same repetitive sequence-based PCR (rep-PCR) fingerprint pattern as M. avium isolates recovered from patient samples collected by bronchoscopy. Water and biofilm samples collected from the bronchoscopy preparation laboratory yielded M. avium, Mycobacterium intracellul...