Utility of transbronchial biopsy in patients with acute respiratory failure : A postmortem study

• Published in: Chest Vol. 114; no. 2; pp. 549 - 555
• Main Authors: RAO, V. K, RITTER, J, KOLLEF, M. H
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Northbrook, IL American College of Chest Physicians 01.08.1998
• Subjects: Acute Disease; Adolescent; Adult; Aged; Aged, 80 and over; Biological and medical sciences; Biopsy; Bronchoscopy; Critical care; Diagnosis, Differential; Female; Heart failure; Hospitals; Humans; Lung - pathology; Lungs; Male; Medical records; Medical sciences; Middle Aged; Patients; Pneumology; Pneumonia; Pneumonia - diagnosis; Reproducibility of Results; Respiratory failure; Respiratory Insufficiency - etiology; Respiratory Insufficiency - pathology; Respiratory system : syndromes and miscellaneous diseases; Retrospective Studies; Sensitivity and Specificity; Steroids; Ventilators; Human; Respiratory failure; Respiratory disease; Autopsy; Biopsy; Etiology; Acute; Bronchus; Surgical approach; Diagnosis

To determine the diagnostic yield of histologic specimens obtained by postmortem transbronchial biopsy (TBB) in patients with acute respiratory failure requiring mechanical ventilation. Standard postmortem histologic examination of lung tissue specimens. An urban university-affiliated hospital. Thir...