Which patients should be tested for viruses on bronchoalveolar lavage fluid?

Bronchoalveolar lavage (BAL) is a major diagnostic tool in lung diseases, including viral respiratory infections. We aimed to better define the situations where viral tests should be performed on BAL fluid (BALF). We retrospectively studied all cases where viral tests [immunofluorescence, immunocyto...

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description Bronchoalveolar lavage (BAL) is a major diagnostic tool in lung diseases, including viral respiratory infections. We aimed to better define the situations where viral tests should be performed on BAL fluid (BALF). We retrospectively studied all cases where viral tests [immunofluorescence, immunocytochemistry, viral culture, and/or polymerase chain reaction (PCR)] were performed on BALF during a period of 1 year (2008) in our institution. We compared the characteristics of patients with virus-positive versus virus-negative BALF. Of the 636 BALF samples sent to the microbiology laboratory, 232 underwent viral tests. Of these, 70 (30 %) were positive and identified 85 viruses: herpes simplex virus (HSV)-1 ( n  = 27), cytomegalovirus (CMV, n  = 23), Epstein–Barr virus (EBV, n  = 18), human herpesvirus (HHV)-6 ( n  = 12), respiratory syncytial virus (RSV, n  = 3), rhinovirus ( n  = 1), and adenovirus ( n  = 1). The variables associated with positive viral tests on univariate analysis were immunosuppression [human immunodeficiency virus (HIV), corticosteroids >10 mg/day for ≥3 weeks, or other immunosuppressive therapy], ground-glass attenuations on computed tomography (CT) scanning, late-onset ventilator-associated pneumonia (VAP), and durations of (i) hospital stay, (ii) intensive care unit (ICU) stay, and (iii) mechanical ventilation before BAL ( p  
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subjects Adenovirus
Adenoviruses
Adult
Aged
Aged, 80 and over
Analysis of Variance
Biological and medical sciences
Biomedical and Life Sciences
Biomedicine
Bronchoalveolar Lavage Fluid - virology
Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease
Computed tomography
Corticoids
Cytomegalovirus
Diagnosis, Differential
Epstein-Barr virus
Female
France - epidemiology
Herpes simplex virus
Herpes viruses
HIV
Hospitals
Human cytomegalovirus
Human health and pathology
Human herpesvirus
Human immunodeficiency virus
Humans
Immune system
Immunocompromised Host
Infectious diseases
Intensive care
Internal Medicine
Laboratories
Lavage
Life Sciences
Lung diseases
Male
Medical Microbiology
Medical sciences
Microbiological Techniques - statistics & numerical data
Microbiology
Middle Aged
Multivariate Analysis
Pneumonia
Polymerase chain reaction
Respiratory diseases
Respiratory syncytial virus
Retrospective Studies
Rhinovirus
Steroids
Ventilators
Virology - methods
Virus Diseases - diagnosis
Virus Diseases - epidemiology
Virus Diseases - pathology
title Which patients should be tested for viruses on bronchoalveolar lavage fluid?
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