Virginia patient now breathing easy after 30 liters of fluid drained. Robert Epperson has pulmonary alveolar proteinosis or PAP, a disease that required him to have a procedure called lung lavage.

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Comprehensive genomic profiling of circulating cell-free DNA (cfDNA) distinguishes focal amplification (amp) from aneuploidy among MET amps in diverse advanced cancer types. Polymorphisms in the ...

Diseases and tuberculosis in particular can pose considerable challenges for wildlife. In order to avoid epidemics within populations or to treat individual animals belonging to highly endangered ...

Validating critical analytical variables of a multiplexed gene expression assay measuring tumor inflammation designed to predict response to anti-PD1 therapy. This is an ASCO Meeting Abstract from the ...

Lucknow: King George's Medical University (KGMU) claims to be the first govt institute in Uttar Pradesh to successfully perform whole lung lavage (WLL) on a patient suffering from pulmonary alveolar ...

The patient, diagnosed with PAP, was admitted to hospital with breathlessness, dry cough and high oxygen requirement of nearly 15 litres per minute, say authorities LUCKNOW The department of ...

An 87-year-old man presents to Okinawa National Hospital in Japan following referral for evaluation of an abnormal shadow on the left lower lobe of his lung. This was detected in December 2016, during ...

Bronchoalveolar lavage (BAL) and lung fine-needle aspirate (LFNA) are commonly performed as the first line of investigation for a myriad of pulmonary problems associated with abnormal imaging findings ...

Scientists performed repeated lung lavage as a new approach for tuberculosis diagnosis in rhinoceros. Subsequent genetic tests reliably identified mycobacteria in the animals' respiratory fluids -- ...