News briefs from the July issue of CHEST

...taanalysis of 32 studies (n=1,105 patients), researchers from McMaster University in Ontario, Canada, found that LABA therapy had no effect on sputum, bronchoalveolar lavage (BAL), or mucosal inflammatory cell findings in adults or children. LABAs did decrease exhaled nitric oxide levels and BAL albumin levels in ad...

Rare lung disease cells indicate higher death risk

...osed each year. There currently are no proven therapies or cures for IPF. Researchers discovered the link between neutrophils and IPF outcome using bronchoalveolar lavage. The technique involves passing a bronchoscope through the mouth of the patient and into the lungs. Saline is squirted into a small part of the...

Rejection in Lung Transplants Due to Elevated Pepsin Level

...erved as disease controls for the study, and 4 normal, nonsmoking control subjects. The researchers determined pepsin levels in all the subjects using bronchoalveolar lavage (BAL) Our primary finding was that, compared with control subjects, wrote the researchers, BAL pepsin levels were elevated in stable lung ...

Stem Cell Finding Could Help Reduce Transplant Rejection

...ficial effect of these cells in various diseases, such as models of heart attacks and pulmonary fibrosis. The current study of MSCs included 172 bronchoalveolar lavage fluid samples collected and analyzed from 76 lung transplant recipients at the U-M Health System. The ability to isolate these cells with relat...

NO Linked With Increased Survival in ALI/ARDS

...y have provided a "reasonable reflection of whole-body NO levels compared with a single organ measurement, which could have been obtained by measuring bronchoalveolar lavage fluid from the lung." Source-Eurekalert SRI...

Common Cold Virus Leads to Death in Lung Transplant Patients

...dent of viral replication, replication is almost certainly required for a maximal response. However, until the present report, which includes positive bronchoalveolar cultures and lung immunochemistry, incontrovertible evidence of rhinoviral replication in the lung in the setting of spontaneous infection has been la...

Two Lung Cancer Patients Die Due To HRV

...dent of viral replication, replication is almost certainly required for a maximal response. However, until the present report, which includes positive bronchoalveolar cultures and lung immunochemistry, incontrovertible evidence of rhinoviral replication in the lung in the setting of spontaneous infection has been la...

Novel Anti-Neutrophilic Effect produced by Salmeterol in mild asthma patients

...e propionate, reduced neutrophil number and human neutrophil lipocalin level in bronchial lavage fluid, and intercellular adhesion molecule-1 level in bronchoalveolar lavage fluid. It was also observed that the numbers of (CD3+) T-lymphocytes, (CD4+) T-helper cells, (CD45RO+) activated T-helper cells and eosinophils...

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Prospective Microbial Analysis of Bronchoalveolar Lavage Fluids with Immune Function Testing Can Distinguish Between Fungal Colonization and Fungal Disease In Lung Transplant Recipients

Data from 150 lung transplant patients demonstrates potential to improve management of risk for infection BOSTON, April 10 /PRNewswire/ -- A prospective analysis of data collected from 170 patients receiving lung transplantation at the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center...

Rapid Flu Tests May Prove Especially Helpful This Season

...B. Specimen types that the kit can assess include nasopharyngeal wash, nasopharyngeal aspirate, nasopharyngeal swab, lower nasal swab, throat swab and bronchoalveolar lavage. Test results time is 15 minutes. Thermo Electron Corp., Waltham, Mass., produces the FLU OIA test, a high-performance assay for the undi...

Fast, Accurate Influenza A/B Antigen Detection

...B. Specimen types that the kit can assess include nasopharyngeal wash, nasopharyngeal aspirate, nasopharyngeal swab, lower nasal swab, throat swab and bronchoalveolar lavage. The company reports influenza A sensitivity of 95.7 percent and specificity of 91.4 percent for nasopharyngeal aspirates. Influenza B sensitiv...

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Cytology, Bronchoalveolar Lavage 2

Description: ARUP Laboratories is a national reference laboratory and a worldwide leader in innovative laboratory research and development. ARUP offers an extensive test menu of highly complex and unique medical tests in clinical and anatomic pathology. Owned by the University of Utah, ARUP Laboratories' client...
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Cytology, Bronchoalveolar Lavage Specimen Collection

Description: ARUP Laboratories is a national reference laboratory and a worldwide leader in innovative laboratory research and development. ARUP offers an extensive test menu of highly complex and unique medical tests in clinical and anatomic pathology. Owned by the University of Utah, ARUP Laboratories' client...
Company:ARUP Laboratories

Cytology, Bronchoalveolar Lavage 1

Description: ARUP Laboratories is a national reference laboratory and a worldwide leader in innovative laboratory research and development. ARUP offers an extensive test menu of highly complex and unique medical tests in clinical and anatomic pathology. Owned by the University of Utah, ARUP Laboratories' client...
Company:ARUP Laboratories

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Lung tumor

... a lung tumor dictate how extensive the operation must be. ... metastatic lung tumors generally are ... common primary lung tumor is bronchoalveolar ... tumors located in the right lung are seen best when the pet is ... Lung Cancer Definition Lung cancer is a disease in which the ...

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Type of stem cell found to reside in transplanted lungs

...eficial effect of these cells in various diseases, such as models of heart attacks and pulmonary fibrosis. The current study of MSCs included 172 bronchoalveolar lavage fluid samples collected and analyzed from 76 lung transplant recipients at the U-M Health System. The ability to isolate these cells with relat...

Lab-on-a-chip could speed up treatment of drug-resistant pneumonia

...pulate and analyze bacteria without growing them first. Samples are first washed out of the patient's lungs with saline solution in a procedure called bronchoalveolar lavage. The organisms are then separated, suspended in a specially designed fluid, and pumped into the chip. Inside the chip, the bacteria flow i...

Common cold virus leads to death in lung transplant patients

...dent of viral replication, replication is almost certainly required for a maximal response. However, until the present report, which includes positive bronchoalveolar cultures and lung immunochemistry, incontrovertible evidence of rhinoviral replication in the lung in the setting of spontaneous infection has been la...

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Bronchioles

... bronchioles and is most commonly due to viral infections. ... Greenfield. Information on adult, youth and children's programs. bronchioles . bronchoalveolar lavage. bronchopulmonary aspergillosis. bronchoscopy. corticosteroid ... smallest airways ( bronchioles ) of the lung caused by an ... Emphysema ...