What does BAL stand for?

Because bronchoalveolar lavage is routinely performed in this situation for other diagnostic purposes, the ELISpot does not result in an extra procedure for the patient," explained Lange To determine the sensitivity and specificity of the ELISpot test, the researchers recruited 347 patients suspected of having TB, but who were either unable to produce sputum, or who had had three consecutive negative acid-fast bacilli sputum culture results.

Instead of invasive procedures, a combination of classical thoracic HRCT findings and immunocytochemical investigations of bronchoalveolar lavage (BAL), using anti-CD1a antibodies (10), should be preferred for the definite diagnosis of isolated pulmonary LCH and this in turn will also diminish complications.

It is an organic solvent extract of calf lung surfactant obtained by cell-free bronchoalveolar lavage.

Pulmonary alveolar proteinosis: a spectrum of cytologic, histochemical, and ultrastructural findings in bronchoalveolar lavage fluid.

The patient was ultimately diagnosed with Pneumocystis Jiroveci Pneumonia (PJP) by lung biopsy after negative bronchoalveolar lavage (BAL).

Occasionally, bronchoalveolar lavage and transbronchial biopsy are revealing, especially with sarcoid, pulmonary alveolar proteinosis or to confirm active alveolitis in collagen vascular diseases.

OBJECTIVES AND METHODS: We studied the disappearance of NPs from the epithelium by sequential lung retention and clearance and bronchoalveolar lavage (BAL) measurements in healthy adult Wistar Kyoto (WKY) rats at various times over 6 months after administration of a single 60- to 100-min intratracheal inhalation of iridium-192 ([.

Even though inspection of the airways and possibly bronchoalveolar lavage can be done in patients with bleeding abnormalities or in those receiving anticoagulation therapy such as warfarin, TBB is contraindicated in the presence of bleeding abnormalities.