comments on ''detection of galactomannan in the bronchoalveolar lavage of high-risk patients with invasive aspergillosis admitted at the intensive care unit'' by khodavaisy et al.  awt-sep    awt-sep    awt-sep    awt-sep    awt-sep    awt-sep  galactomannan in bronchoalveolar lavage for diagnosis of invasive aspergillosis  we read with interest the prospective study by khod...

background: the frequency of invasive opportunistic mycoses has increased significantly over the past decades especially in immunocompromised patients. invasive aspergillosis (ia) has become a major cause of morbidity and mortality among these patients. as bronchoalveolar lavage (bal) fluid samples are generally useful specimens in the diagnosis of invasive pulmonary aspergillosis (ipa), this s...

background and objectives: sputum smear staining for acid-fast bacilli is initial approach to the diagnosis of pulmonary tuberculosis (ptb) but more than 50% of cases are sputum smear-negative. this study was aimed to investigate the diagnostic value of fiberoptic bronchoscopy (fob) guided bronchoalveolar lavage (bal) in patients suspected to have tuberculosis. methods: this prospective cross-s...

b ackg r oun d : multi-drug resistant strains of acinetobacter spp. have created therapeutic problems worldwide. the objective of this study was to detect integrons  in acinetobacter   spp. isolates  from ventilator-associated  pneu- monia patients using pcr method. me t ho d s : a total 51 bronchoalveolar lavage samples were obtained from patients in icu and examined for acinetobacter spp. inf...

conclusions in molecular epidemiology studies, nested pcr has higher sensitivity than pcr. results of this study support the colonization of p. jiroveci in patients receiving lung transplantation. patients who are carriers of p. jiroveci are at a higher risk of p. jiroveci pneumonia. results the genome of p. jiroveci was revealed by a 346 bp pcr product in the initial amplification and a 120 bp...

the frequency of fungal infections in immunocompromised patients, particularly by candida species, has increased in recent years. colonization by candida species in respiratory tract in susceptible hosts may play an important role to precede disseminated candidiasis. this study was designed to identify candida species from bronchoalveolar lavage (bal) samples and determination of antifungal sus...

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...