Background: Diagnosis of extra-pulmonary tuberculosis (TB) is often delayed because diverse clinical presentations and difficulties in establishing the bacteriological diagnosis. This study aimed to evaluate usefulness GeneXpert MTB/RIF diagnosis TB Bangladeshi patients.
 Methods: cross-sectional was done BIRDEM General Hospital, Dhaka, Bangladesh from 2013 2016 as a part Diabetic Somiti (...

OBJECTIVES Attempts to differentiate between the pathogenesis of the severe pulmonary manifestations observed in systemic sclerosis (SSc) and the mild form in primary Sjögren's syndrome (pSS) were performed by studying cell populations recovered during bronchoalveolar lavage (BAL). METHODS AND RESULTS Two-colour flow cytometric analysis of BAL fluid lymphocytes showed a similar degree of phen...

A 30 year old man developed lipoid pneumonia after an injection of lamp oil. In addition to "foamy" alveolar macrophages, bronchoalveolar lavage (BAL) fluid analysis showed an increased number of neutrophils. Moreover, lactate dehydrogenase (LDH) and alkaline phosphatase activities were elevated. The increase seen in LDH activity both in serum and BAL fluid was accompanied by shifts in the isoe...

A case of high altitude pulmonary oedema (HAPE) in a climber who made a rapid ascent on Mt McKinley (Denali), Alaska is described. The bronchoalveolar lavage (BAL) fluid contained increased numbers of red blood cells and an abundance of haemosiderin laden macrophages consistent with alveolar haemorrhage. The timing of this finding indicates that alveolar haemorrhage began early during the ascen...

To investigate the safety of repeated bronchoalveolar lavage (BAL) and the variability of commonly measured parameters from BAL to BAL in the same subject, we performed a total of 59 BALs in 16 normal volunteer subjects. The BAL was performed with 120 ml (three aliquots of 40 ml) of room temperature, normal saline in a lingular subsegment. Four subjects had five BAL, three had four BAL, and nin...

The value of bronchoalveolar lavage (BAL) in the exploration and management of interstitial lung diseases is now well-established, and has recently been updated in reports of the European Task group on BAL (1, 2). Its place in therapy is not so clearly demonstrated, although BAL had been used for therapeutic purposes prior to its use as a diagnostic procedure. As early as 1963, RAMIREZ et al. [...

A common pulmonary complication due to the toxicity of amiodarone is chronic interstitial pneumonitis. Alveolar hemorrhage, with or without hemoptysis, is an exceedingly infrequent presentation of amiodarone toxicity. We report a 69-year old patient with dyspnea, hypoxemia and bilateral diffuse interstitial and alveolar infiltrates occurring four months after treatment with amiodarone. An initi...

Complement receptor type 1 (CR1) (CD35; C3b/C4b receptor) is a transmembrane protein of many haematopoietic cells. Once cleaved, soluble complement receptor type 1 (sCR1) exerts opposite effects as a powerful inhibitor of complement. This study addressed both the question of whether sCR1 was found in bronchoalveolar lavage (BAL) of normals and patients with various inflammatory disease, and its...

Bronchoalveolar lavage (BAL) is a relatively new technique for assessment of the alveolar compartment of the lung. Its current clinical applications are the initial assessment of acute and chronic diffuse interstitial lung disease and the diagnosis of pulmonary infections, especially in the immunocompromised host. In addition, BAL provides information on the pathophysiology of diffuse interstit...