ReviewEuropean respiratory review : an official journal of the European Respiratory Society2010
The clinical utility of bronchoalveolar lavage in diffuse parenchymal lung disease.
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33 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 102 citations in OpenAlex.
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- A Comprehensive Outlook on Pulmonary Alveolar Proteinosis-A Review.International journal of molecular sciences · 2024Review
- Sarcoidosis-associated pulmonary fibrosis: joining the dots.European respiratory review : an official journal of the European Respiratory Society · 2023Review
- Differential diagnosis of pulmonary sarcoidosis: a review.Frontiers in medicine · 2023Review
- Immune alveolitis in interstitial lung disease: an attractive cytological profile in immunocompromised patients.BMC pulmonary medicine · 2022Observational
- Anticoagulant Use as an Independent Risk Factor and Higher In-Hospital Mortality in Patients Showing Alveolar Hemorrhage in Diffuse Lung Disease.Medicina (Kaunas, Lithuania) · 2021Article
- [Treatment of lung fibrosis in systemic rheumatic diseases (new treatment)].Zeitschrift fur Rheumatologie · 2021Article
- Pulmonary alveolar proteinosis complicated with nocardiosis: A case report and review of the literature.World journal of clinical cases · 2021Article
- Bronchoalveolar lavage and lung biopsy in connective tissue diseases, to do or not to do?Therapeutic advances in musculoskeletal disease · 2021Review
- Exogenous lipoid pneumonia: when radiologist makes the difference.La Radiologia medica · 2021Article
- Alveolar proteinosis due to toxic inhalation at workplace.Respiratory medicine case reports · 2020Article
- Interstitial lung disease: the diagnostic role of bronchoscopy.Journal of thoracic disease · 2017Review
- The diagnostic value of the bronchoalveolar lavage in interstitial lung diseases.Journal of negative results in biomedicine · 2017Article
- Comorbidities in interstitial lung diseases.European respiratory review : an official journal of the European Respiratory Society · 2017Review
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- Role of bronchoalveolar lavage in the diagnosis of acute exacerbations of idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis: a retrospective study.BMC pulmonary medicine · 2015Article
- Loeffler's Syndrome Induced by Ingestion of Urushiol Chicken.Tuberculosis and respiratory diseases · 2015Article
- Bronchoalveolar lavage is an ideal tool in evaluation of local immune response of pigs vaccinated with Pasteurella multocida bacterin vaccine.Veterinary world · 2015Article
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Abstract
Bronchoalveolar lavage (BAL) has been used in diagnostic and prognostic evaluation in diffuse parenchymal lung disease for three decades and has a central role in the diagnosis of a number of rare disorders and in excluding opportunistic infection in treated patients. It also has an important place in the personal diagnostic algorithms of many experienced clinicians in the diagnosis of the more prevalent disorders, including sarcoidosis, hypersensitivity pneumonitis and idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis. This use of BAL is not well captured in the medical literature, as most published studies pre-date changes in disease classification and fail to integrate BAL data with other clinical and radiological information. Further studies to quantify the value added by bronchoalveolar lavage in routine practice are urgently required.
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