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| Carvalho,Eliane Maria de; Massarollo,Paulo Celso Bosco; Levin,Anna S.; Isern,Maria Rita Montenegro; Pereira,Wilson Leite; Abdala,Edson; Rossi,Flavia; Mies,Sérgio. |
| Nosocomial pneumonia is a common complication in patients on mechanical ventilation and results in significant mortality. Diagnosis of pneumonia in patients who are intubated and under mechanical ventilation is difficult, even with the aid of clinical, laboratorial, and endoscopic tests. The objective of this study was to compare three methods of tracheal sputum collection in patients with a clinical and radiological diagnosis of pneumonia. Twenty-two patients with a clinical diagnosis of liver disease were enrolled, 18 years of age or older, 13 males and nine females, who had been mechanically ventilated over an intubation period of 5.86 ± 4.62 days. These patients were being treated in intensive care unit (ICU) of the Liver Transplantdepartment.... |
| Tipo: Info:eu-repo/semantics/article |
Palavras-chave: Pneumonia; Microorganisms; Bronchoalveolar lavage; Tracheal aspiration; Closed aspiration system. |
| Ano: 2008 |
URL: http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S1413-86702008000100015 |
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| Hung,Hung-Chang; Chan,Chi-Ho; Tsao,Shih-Ming; Chen,Shiuan-Chih; Wu,Tzu-Chin; Lu,Min-Chi; Wu,Der-Jinn; Huang,Shu-Ju; Lee,Yuan-Ti. |
| OBJECTIVE: The diagnostic efficacy of the BDProbeTEC ET Mycobacterium tuberculosis (MTB) complex direct detection assay (DTB) performed on bronchoalveolar lavage (BAL) specimens and sputum smears was compared with acid-fast bacilli (AFB) smear microscopy. METHOD: AFB smear microscopy, DTB and culture results of 286 patients with pulmonary tuberculosis were retrospectively reviewed. A total of 120 patients provided expectorated sputum samples, and 166 patients provided BAL specimens. Culture results and clinical diagnosis were used as gold standards. RESULTS: The sensitivity and specificity of the DTB assay in detecting MTB in sputum specimens was significantly higher compared to AFB smear microscopy (83.7% and 82.4%, vs. 75.6%, and 41.2%, respectively).... |
| Tipo: Info:eu-repo/semantics/article |
Palavras-chave: Bronchoalveolar lavage; Mycobacterium tuberculosis; Acid-fast bacilli staining; Molecular diagnosis; BDProbeTEC ET system. |
| Ano: 2012 |
URL: http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S1413-86702012000300005 |
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| Silva,Rosemeri Maurici da; Bazzo,Maria Luiza; Borges,Alessandra Abel. |
| Induced sputum is a useful technique for assessing airway inflammation, but its role in the diagnosis of lung disease in immunosuppressed patients needs further investigation. This study compared the use of induced sputum and BAL in the diagnosis of pneumocystosis, in HIV patients. From January 1, 2001, to December 30, 2002, HIV-positive patients older than 14 were evaluated at a hospital in Florianópolis, Santa Catarina, Brazil. Patients with respiratory symptoms for seven days or longer, with a normal or abnormal chest X-ray, and those without respiratory symptoms but with an abnormal chest X-ray, were included in the study. All patients were submitted to clinical, radiological and laboratory evaluation, after which induced sputum and bronchoscopy with... |
| Tipo: Info:eu-repo/semantics/article |
Palavras-chave: Pneumocystosis; Induced sputum; Bronchoalveolar lavage. |
| Ano: 2007 |
URL: http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S1413-86702007000600005 |
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