Showing papers by "Talmadge E. King published in 1990"
TL;DR: BAL has been found to be diagnostic in several infectious and noninfectious diseases involving the lower respiratory tract, and it provides valuable information that may be helpful in characterizing the prognosis and response to therapy in certain interstitial diseases of the lung.
Abstract: BAL remains a powerful investigative tool In a short span of 20 yr, it has helped tremendously in understanding some of the aspects of the pathogenesis of diseases involving the lower respiratory tract To realize its full potential in the diagnosis and management of diseases involving the lower respiratory tract, there is a great need for standardization of the technical aspects of BAL as well as processing and analysis of the BAL cellular- and fluid-phase components Despite these hurdles, BAL has been found to be diagnostic in several infectious and noninfectious diseases involving the lower respiratory tract, and it provides valuable information that may be helpful in characterizing the prognosis and response to therapy in certain interstitial diseases of the lung It is expected that with future research, in particular long-term prospective epidemiologic and clinical studies in pneumoconioses and in other interstitial lung disease, BAL will prove more valuable in the diagnosis and management of such disease
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TL;DR: HRCT scanning demonstrated enlarged, irregular and stellate-shaped arteries, and small patchy opacities were present in the pulmonary parenchyma, which suggests that HRCT scans may be of value in the evaluation of pulmonary vasculitis because these findings are distinct from those of other diffuse lung lesions.
Abstract: A case of Churg-Strauss vasculitis was studied by high-resolution computed tomography (HRCT) scanning. HRCT scanning demonstrated enlarged, irregular and stellate-shaped arteries, and small patchy opacities were present in the pulmonary parenchyma. These findings correlated with the histologic appearance of the pulmonary parenchyma on open lung biopsy. The arteries were enlarged due to eosinophilic infiltration in the vessel walls, and the adjacent lymphatics were dilated. This observation suggests that HRCT scans may be of value in the evaluation of pulmonary vasculitis because these findings are distinct from those of other diffuse lung lesions.
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