First isolation of Ascotricha chartarum from bronchoalveolar lavage of two patients with pulmonary infections

First Report of the Isolation of Nocardia thailandica from the Bronchoalveolar Lavage of a Patient in Iran

Nocardiae are Gram-positive, filamentous, aerobic, relatively slow-growing, and weakly acid-fast bacteria which cause nocardiosis in humans. We describe a 53-year-old patient with chronic bronchitis referred to Al-Zahra Hospital, Isfahan. A bronchial washing sample was taken from the patient. A Nocardia-like microorganism was detected in microscopic evaluation. Based on the phenotypic and 16S r...

First Report on the Isolation of Nocardia Thailandica from the Bronchoalveolar Lavage sample of a Patient in Iran

The role of two-segment bronchoalveolar lavage in the diagnosis of pulmonary infections.

STUDY OBJECTIVE To determine if performing bronchoalveolar lavage (BAL) from more than one lung segment augments the diagnostic yield in patients with pulmonary infection. PATIENTS AND STUDY DESIGN Seventy-six patients who underwent bisegmental BAL for the diagnosis or exclusion of pulmonary infection were studied prospectively. MAIN RESULTS In patients with AIDS, the concentration of Pneum...

evaluation of fat atrophy in patients with dermis fat graft of orbit by ct-scan

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Diagnosis of pulmonary strongyloidiasis by bronchoalveolar lavage.

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...