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Bronchoalveolar lavage in lung transplantation. State of the art.
Clinical transplantation - 1 Apr 1999
Tiroke A H, Bewig B, Haverich A
Abstract excerpt
Fiberoptic bronchoscopy with bronchoalveolar lavage (BAL) has become a crucial tool in the management of lung transplant recipients. Detection of pulmonary infectious pathogens by culture, cytology, and histology of BAL, protected brush specimens, and transbronchial biopsies (TBB) is highly effective. Morphologic and phenotypological analyses of BAL cells may be suggestive for certain complications after lung...
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