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Editor-In-Chief: C. Michael Gibson, M.S., M.D. [1]
Overview
Bronchioalveolar lavage and surgical lung biopsy can be helpful in diagnosing other diseases that causing diffuse alveolar damage that present same as acute interstitial pneumonitis.
Other Diagnostic Studies
- Bronchoalveolar lavage[1]
- Bronchoalveolar lavage can be helpful in obtaining tissue fragments for cultures, for the assessment of diffuse alveolar hemorrhage and for the assessment of cellular differentials.
- Surgical lung biopsy:[2]
- The gold standard for diagnosis is surgical lung biopsy.
References
- ↑ Meyer KC, Raghu G, Baughman RP, Brown KK, Costabel U, du Bois RM, Drent M, Haslam PL, Kim DS, Nagai S, Rottoli P, Saltini C, Selman M, Strange C, Wood B (May 2012). "An official American Thoracic Society clinical practice guideline: the clinical utility of bronchoalveolar lavage cellular analysis in interstitial lung disease". Am. J. Respir. Crit. Care Med. 185 (9): 1004–14. doi:10.1164/rccm.201202-0320ST. PMID 22550210.
- ↑ Bouros D, Nicholson AC, Polychronopoulos V, du Bois RM (February 2000). "Acute interstitial pneumonia". Eur. Respir. J. 15 (2): 412–8. PMID 10706513.