Bronchoalveolar lavage amylase is associated with risk factors for aspiration and predicts bacterial pneumonia

Critical Care Medicine

Volumn 41, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 765-773

  Weiss, Curtis H ^a   Moazed, Farzad ^a   Dibardino, David ^a   Swaroop, Mamta ^a   Wunderink, Richard G ^a  

^a NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

amylase; Aspiration; Bronchoalveolar lavage; Mechanical ventilation; Pneumonia

Indexed keywords

AMYLASE; BRONCHOALVEOLAR LAVAGE AMYLASE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ACID ASPIRATION; ADULT; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL PNEUMONIA; BACTERIUM CULTURE; COAGULASE NEGATIVE STAPHYLOCOCCUS; COLONY FORMING UNIT; CORYNEBACTERIUM; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; ENTEROBACTERIACEAE; ENTEROCOCCUS; FEMALE; HUMAN; INTENSIVE CARE UNIT; LACTOBACILLUS; LUNG LAVAGE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; METHICILLIN RESISTANT STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; METHICILLIN SUSCEPTIBLE STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; NEISSERIA; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PANCREAS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSEUDOMONAS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTOR; ROTHIA; SALIVARY GLAND; STREPTOCOCCUS; VENTILATED PATIENT;

ADULT; AGED; ALPHA-AMYLASES; BIOLOGICAL MARKERS; BRONCHOALVEOLAR LAVAGE; CLINICAL ENZYME TESTS; FEMALE; HUMANS; INTENSIVE CARE UNITS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PNEUMONIA, BACTERIAL; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; RESPIRATORY ASPIRATION; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK FACTORS;

EID: 84874942492     PISSN: 00903493     EISSN: 15300293     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/CCM.0b013e31827417bc     Document Type: Article

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