A modern bronchoscopy suite with fluoroscopy is available for ambulatory and inpatient bronchoscopic procedures. Fellows have ample opportunities to develop skills in performing bronchoalveolar lavage ...

“This helps improve ventilation and breathlessness.” The procedure, known as bronchoscopic lung volume reduction, mimics the effects of the older surgery, but is reversable. Aside from new drugs and ...

Applications of bronchoscopic needle aspiration have expanded to include not only sampling of paratracheal or mediastinal lymph nodes, but peripheral, submucosal, and endobronchial lesions.

Fellows have the opportunity to learn and perform bronchoscopic techniques, including bronchoalveolar lavage and biopsies, and gain understanding of pulmonary function studies, blood gas measurements, ...

This relative lack of help from bronchoscopy was not unexpected because the lesions in this group were almost exclusively peripheral and not readily accessible to bronchoscopic visualization.

The five-year-old was earlier admitted to another hospital and after two attempts at bronchoscopic removal failed, the hospital had advised open chest surgery to remove the foreign object.

A recent policy change to Blue Cross Blue Shield of Massachusetts (BCBSMA) insurance introduces stricter rules on qualifying ...

Where appropriate CT scans and bronchoscopic imaging are also included as part of the investigation. Pulmonary medicine is largely based on a strong foundation on the plain chest radiograph. Indeed ...

This small study found the bronchoscopic transplantation of cultured P63+ cells to be safe and well-tolerated. Health-related QoL in Alpha-1 Antitrypsin Deficiency-Associated COPD According to ...

ARP Atlases. 2007;1:17-47. The total number of leukocytes recovered by lavage is determined by examination of a sample of the pooled fluid with a hemocytometer. The cell counts are most accurate ...

This small study found the bronchoscopic transplantation of cultured P63+ cells to be safe and well-tolerated. Health-related QoL in Alpha-1 Antitrypsin Deficiency-Associated COPD According to ...