Using urea as an endogenous marker of bronchoalveolar lavage dilution [5] (multiple letters)

Critical Care Medicine

Volumn 33, Issue 9, 2005, Pages 2153-2154

  Kipnis, Eric ^a   Sawa, Teiji ^a   Wiener Kronish, Jeanine ^a   Burgmann, Heinz ^b   Zedtwitz Liebenstein, Konstantin ^b   Frass, Michael ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGICAL MARKER; UREA;

BACTERIAL COUNT; BRONCHOSCOPY; DILUTION; HOSPITAL INFECTION; HUMAN; LETTER; LUNG ALVEOLUS EPITHELIUM; LUNG CAPILLARY; LUNG FLUID; LUNG LAVAGE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SERUM; VENTILATOR ASSOCIATED PNEUMONIA;

EID: 24944531461     PISSN: 00903493     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.CCM.0000179023.59689.D8     Document Type: Letter

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5. Marcy TW Merrill WW Rankin JA Limitations of using urea to quantify epithelial lining fluid recovered by bronchoalveolar lavage Am Rev Respir Dis 135 1987 1276 1280