The diagnostic value of bronchoalveolar lavage in opportunistic pneumonia following kidney transplantation

Dalhoff, K.; Schultek, T.; Marre, R.; Fischer, A.; Wiessmann, K.J.

Pneumologie 44(Suppl 1): 314-315

1990


ISSN/ISBN: 0934-8387
PMID: 2367403
Document Number: 354698
In 18 renal transplant patients with pneumonia under ciclosporin therapy the diagnostic value of BAL and of covered micro brush smears were compared. In 10 out of 18 cases partly atypical bacterial pathogens were cultivated and cytomegaly was diagnosed 4 times, mycosis twice, whereas 2 cases could not be clarified. A granulocytosis in the differential cell pattern correlated with a bacterial infection.

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