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Investigations of black bronchoalveolar human lavage fluid

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authors

  • Lynn, W. S.
  • Kylstra, J. A.
  • Sahu, S. C.
  • Tainer, John
  • Shelburne, J.
  • Pratt, P. C.
  • Gutknecht, W. F.
  • Shaw, R.
  • Ingram, P.

publication date

  • 1977

journal

  • Chest  Journal

abstract

  • The removal by bronchoalveolar lavage (two occasions) of 10(11) black macrophages containing crystals of aluminum silicate, large amounts of amorphous carbon, and oxidized lipids was followed by considerable improvement in gas exchange in a patient. Sixty-eight percent of these pulmonary macrophages were viable and normal, as judged by chemotatctic and phagocytic activity. Except for cigarettes, no source for the previously mentioned ingested foreign substances was found. These observations suggest that removal by lavage of nonviable macrophages laden with foreign bodies from distal portions of the lungs of pulmonary patients may be therapeutically useful.

subject areas

  • Carbon
  • Chemotaxis
  • Foreign Bodies
  • Humans
  • Lipids
  • Macrophages
  • Male
  • Middle Aged
  • Phagocytosis
  • Pulmonary Alveoli
  • Pulmonary Fibrosis
  • Smoking
  • Therapeutic Irrigation
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Identity

International Standard Serial Number (ISSN)

  • 0012-3692

Digital Object Identifier (DOI)

  • 10.1378/chest.72.4.483

PubMed ID

  • 908217
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Additional Document Info

start page

  • 483

end page

  • 488

volume

  • 72

issue

  • 4

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