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Lavage
(redirected from Bronchoalveolar lavage)

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lavage [lə′väzh]
(medicine)
The therapeutic washing out of an organ.
Lavage 

a medical procedure used to cleanse mechanically the walls and contents of such tubular organs as the vagina or urethra and surrounding tissues. A lavage may also be performed for therapeutic and preventive medical purposes; in such cases, it is based on the action of a chemical agent or temperature. Warm boiled water or solutions of various medicinal substances are used in the procedure.
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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.
Novel method to quickly detect active TB in smear-negative patients by Asian News International
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.
Isolated pulmonary langerhans-cell histiocytosis mimicking miliary ... by Ozen, Metehan; Akcakaya, Necla; Camcioglu, Yildiz; Cokugras, Haluk; Oz, Buge / Journal of Pediatric Infection
It is an organic solvent extract of calf lung surfactant obtained by cell-free bronchoalveolar lavage.
Surfactant: agents utilized to lower surface tension by Gardenhire, Doug / FOCUS: Journal for Respiratory Care & Sleep Medicine
 
 
 
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