public how to protect against 03. People whose 03 sensitivity is clinically apparent by symptoms or lung function loss are commonly advised to minimize exposure by avoiding outdoor exercise during pollution episodes. The same advice now seems appropriate for clinically "insensitive" individuals, given that they may experience asymptomatic lung function decrements, as well as lung inflammation a...

To study the relationship between the results of bronchoalveolar lavage and pulmonary function tests during induction and progression of asbestosis, three groups of six sheep were exposed repeatedly by intratracheal injection to either saline (controls), low doses of Canadian chrysotile UICC asbestos (cumulative exposure 328 mg) (low-dose group), or high doses of the same fibres (cumulative dos...

UNLABELLED The study was aimed to evaluate the potential biomarkers from pulmonary surfactant protein D (SP-D), Krebs von den Lungen-6 (KL-6), and 56-kD a human type I protein (HTI-56) in serum and bronchoalveolar lavage fluid samples of children with Mycoplasma pneumoniae pneumonia. This retrospective study, self-controlled study enrolled 34 Chinese children with M. pneumoniae pneumonia. The l...

Proximity extension assay proves feasible for multiplex analysis of proteins in bronchoalveolar lavage. Small exploratory study found multiple inflammatory that differed between patients with sarcoidosis and idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis.https://bit.ly/3nW14nF

OBJECTIVES This study sought to compare the sensitivities of serum galactomannan and bronchoalveolar lavage galactomannan in diagnosing invasive aspergillosis in solid-organ transplant recipients (lung and heart). MATERIALS AND METHODS This study took place in the lung transplant center of the National Research Institute for Tuberculosis and Lung Disease. All patients with clinical and radiol...

1. It has been suggested that CYFRA21-1, a cytokeratin subunit 19 fragment, is potentially useful for diagnosis and monitoring of lung carcinoma. However, serum levels of CYFRA21-1 are also increased in a high proportion of patients with interstitial lung disease. In this study we measured CYFRA21-1 levels in bronchoalveolar lavage fluid from 10 normal subjects, 18 patients with idiopathic pulm...