Bronchoalveolar lavage-based COVID-19 testing in patients with cancer | Zendy

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Bronchoalveolar lavage-based COVID-19 testing in patients with cancer

Author(s) -

Muhammad Bilal Abid,

Saurabh Chhabra,

Blake W. Buchan,

Mary Beth Graham,

Sameem Abedin,

Bicky Thapa,

Anita D’Souza,

Ben George,

Mehdi Hamadani

Publication year - 2020

Publication title -

hematology/oncology and stem cell therapy

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 0.666

H-Index - 22

eISSN - 1658-3876

pISSN - 2589-0646

DOI - 10.1016/j.hemonc.2020.09.002

Subject(s) - medicine , bronchoalveolar lavage , bronchoscopy , cancer , retrospective cohort study , respiratory tract , surgery , respiratory system , lung

A few case reports in the setting of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) and multiplex polymerase chain reaction (PCR)-based assays for common respiratory pathogens have shown a higher yield of bronchoalveolar lavage (BAL) samples than upper airway specimens in immunocompromised patients.

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