Bronchoalveolar lavage (BAL) and lung fine-needle aspirate (LFNA) are commonly performed as the first line of investigation for a myriad of pulmonary problems associated with abnormal imaging findings ...

A prospective study was performed on consecutive patients who were admitted to the Haematopoietic stem cell transplant unit at Newcastle General Hospital between January 2002 and April 2006 for HSCT ...

A new study compared BAL cell-free DNA (cfDNA) sequencing against plasma cell-free BAL sequencing to detect lung cancer-derived mutations. The BAL cfDNA approach detected ≥1 tumor-derived mutation in ...

Background. Precise etiologic diagnosis in pediatric community-acquired pneumonia (CAP) remains challenging. Methods. We conducted a retrospective study of CAP etiology in 2 groups of pediatric ...

Anterior Hypopituitarism in Adult Survivors of Childhood Cancers Treated With Cranial Radiotherapy: A Report From the St Jude Lifetime Cohort Study BAL may be the preferred diagnostic modality for the ...

Pneumonia remains a major cause of morbidity and mortality. The use of broad-spectrum antibiotics is associated with the development of resistance, major side-effects and costs. Despite a higher ...

CAMBRIDGE, Mass., June 15, 2021 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Spero Therapeutics, Inc. (Nasdaq: SPRO), a multi-asset clinical-stage biopharmaceutical company focused on identifying, developing, and ...

When rat (female Wistar) lungs were lavaged (bronchoalveolar lavage, BAL) six times with physiological saline, approximately the same number of alveolar macrophages (AM) were found in the first and ...

REDWOOD CITY, Calif., April 29, 2025--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Karius®, Inc., a leader in metagenomic sequencing for infectious disease diagnostics, announces the launch of Karius Focus | BAL, a microbial ...