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    Bronchoscopy is an endoscopic technique of visualizing the inside of the airways for diagnostic and therapeutic purposes. An instrument (bronchoscope)...
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    within pulmonary medicine that deals with the use of procedures such as bronchoscopy and pleuroscopy to treat several pulmonary diseases. Interventional pulmonology...
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    examination chest X-ray, CT scan and 3D reconstruction images or CT virtual bronchoscopy, bronchial angiography. Laboratory tests blood test: WBC Sputum: cells...
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    foreign body, and the patient can maintain adequate ventilation, rigid bronchoscopy under general anesthesia should be performed. Supplemental oxygen, cardiac...
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  • Electromagnetic navigation bronchoscopy (ENB) is a medical procedure utilizing electromagnetic technology designed to localize and guide endoscopic tools...
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    upper respiratory tract (laryngoscopy) The lower respiratory tract (bronchoscopy) The ear (otoscope) The urinary tract (cystoscopy) The female reproductive...
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    Orthopaedic Gynaecology Neonatology Pediatric surgery Pulmonology & Bronchoscopy Dermatology, Cosmetic & plastic surgery Radiology & imaging sciences...
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  • Chest and neck x-rays, bronchoscopy, CT-scans, and/or MRIs may reveal structural pathology. Flexible fiberoptic bronchoscopy can also be very helpful...
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    Giant Endotracheal Hamartoma by Electrosurgical Snaring via Fiberoptic Bronchoscopy in a 9-Year-Old Boy". Frontiers in Pediatrics. 9. Frontiers Media SA...
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    including: imaging, histopathology, pulmonary function testing, serology, bronchoscopy, and more. In 2020, official guidelines were published by American Thoracic...
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    than bronchoscopy without the invasiveness, trauma, and risk of hypoxemia, the complications of physician involvement, and the cost that bronchoscopy requires...
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    flora. Transtracheal or transbronchial (via bronchoscopy) aspirates can also be cultured. Fiber optic bronchoscopy is often performed to exclude obstructive...
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    each with their advantages and drawbacks. Bronchoscopy According to the American Heart Association, bronchoscopy is a reliable method used to visualize the...
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    used to visualize the location and identity of a foreign body, rigid bronchoscopy under general anesthesia is the gold-standard for diagnosis since the...
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    tests a special type of Chest CT scan or a bronchoscopy will be ordered. The results of the scan and bronchoscopy will display the status of the condition...
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    volume. Post-surgical atelectasis will be bibasal in pattern. Chest CT or bronchoscopy may be necessary if the cause of atelectasis is not clinically apparent...
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    of controlled thermal energy to the airway wall during a series of bronchoscopies. While it may increase exacerbation frequency in the first few months...
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    radiation (brachytherapy), or physically removing the blocking tissue by bronchoscopy, sometimes aided by thermal or laser ablation. Other causes of lung cancer-associated...
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  • has been made obsolete with improvements in computed tomography and bronchoscopy. Ronald B. George (2005). Chest medicine: essentials of pulmonary and...
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  • moderate or very high can be seen chest x-ray to analyze the lungs, a bronchoscopy, a brain/lung/skin biopsy, or a sputum culture. trimethoprim/sulfamethoxazole...
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    stridor. A camera inserted via the mouth down into the trachea, called bronchoscopy, may be performed to investigate the cause of an obstruction. Management...
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    these) Endoscopy, either upper or lower gastrointestinal, cystoscopy, bronchoscopy, or nasendoscopy; to localise areas suspicious for malignancy and biopsy...
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  • 1093/infdis/155.5.862. PMID 3559290. Sugeir, S.; de Moraes, A.G. (2019). "6. Bronchoscopy in the Intensive Care Unit". In Demetriades, D.; Inaba, K. (eds.). Atlas...
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    double-blind, placebo-controlled study of lorazepam as premedication for bronchoscopy" (PDF). Chest. 109 (5): 1195–1198. doi:10.1378/chest.109.5.1195. PMID 8625666...
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    test (DLCO), oxygen titration studies, cardiopulmonary stress test, bronchoscopy, and thoracentesis Treatment will depend on severity and may also depend...
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  • congenital and acquired bronchiectasis. Pathology of the affected bronchi by bronchoscopy showing the deficiency of cartilaginous plates in the bronchial wall...
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    such as those obtained via transbronchial lung biopsy (performed during bronchoscopy) are usually not sufficient for this purpose. Hence, larger biopsies...
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  • medical procedures: Arthroscopy, for examining a joint space (orthopedics) Bronchoscopy, for examining the lower respiratory tract (pulmonology) Colonoscopy...
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    x-rays, and depending on severity of infection doctors may recommend a bronchoscopy. Blood test are important to early detect for other causative substances...
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    with chest X-rays (CXR), CT scans, transbronchial needle aspiration at bronchoscopy and mediastinoscopy. CXRs often provide the ability to show mediastinal...
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