sarcoidosis/알부민

Some properties of the alveolar epithelial barrier during transalveolar transport of water and solutes were studied in normal humans and patients with sarcoidosis by means of the transalveolar capillary concentration gradients of various solutes. A total of 9 normal control subjects (Group A) and 60

A 53-year-old Afro-Caribbean woman presented to casualty with a constellation of symptoms pointing to a diagnosis of hypercalcaemia. This was confirmed on laboratory investigation. Findings of a raised serum protein (108 g/l) and normal albumin (35 g/l), lead to an initial working diagnosis of

To define whether the levels of immunoglobulins and albumin in bronchoalveolar lavage (BAL) fluid are related to the intensity of sarcoidosis alveolitis, 49 patients affected with pulmonary sarcoidosis were studied. To distinguish between high- and low-intensity alveolitis, two parameters were used:

The serum albumin-globulin ratio (A/G) has been evaluated and correlated to confirm the clinical stages of sarcoidosis in clinically diagnosed cases. In comparing each clinical stage of sarcoidosis, using Student's t test (P = .05), a significant difference was observed. Overall, men maintained a

The authors measured the bronchoalveolar lavage fluid (BALF) neutrophils, neutrophil elastase and albumin in 60 patients with pulmonary sarcoidosis, 18 patients with other interstitial lung diseases and 14 healthy controls in order to evaluate its significance in the prognosis of sarcoidosis. The

BACKGROUND Sarcoidosis and chronic beryllium disease (CBD) are granulomatous disorders which can lead to development of chronic inflammation and fibrosis. These diseases have several similarities from their clinical aspects. The aim of this study was to compare the protein profile at the site of

Oxygen radical formation of alveolar macrophages (by luminogenic substrate-intensified chemiluminescence) and the concentrations of phagocyte products myeloperoxidase, elastase and lactoferrin, as well as alpha-proteinase inhibitor and albumin were measured in bronchoalveolar lavage fluid of 28

Reproducible volumes of bronchoalveolar lavage (BAL) fluid were recovered from 19 patients with pulmonary sarcoidosis and from 6 control subjects using a standardized technique. Studies of cell surface markers showed that BAL from 9 patients contained more than 8 X 10(6) helper T-cells. These

Lymphocytes obtained by bronchoalveolar lavage (BAL) in hypersensitivity pneumonitis (HP) and pulmonary sarcoidosis (PS) are believed to be derived from interstitial inflammatory lesions of the lung in which lymphocytes have migrated from the blood. Because cellular motility is one of the important

BAL lymphocyte percentages, quantitated gallium-67 lung uptake, and SACE levels have all been proposed as measures of disease activity in sarcoidosis. We analyzed 32 paired sera and BAL fluids from sarcoidosis patients by high-resolution agarose electrophoresis to look for protein changes

BACKGROUND KL-6, and surfactant protein A (SP-A) and surfactant protein D (SP-D) derived from alveolar type II cells and/or bronchiolar epithelial cells have been reported to be useful markers for interstitial lung diseases. OBJECTIVE The aim of this study was to measure the levels of these

The aim of this study was to explore whether amounts of angiotensin converting enzyme (ACE) and lysozyme produced within the lungs correlate more closely than serum levels of these enzymes, or other inflammatory markers, with chest radiographic profusion scores, lung function and therapy response in

A highly sensitive flow injection fluorometry for the determination of albumin was developed and applied to the determination of albumin in human bronchoalveolar lavage fluids (BALF). This method is based on binding of chromazurol S (CAS) to albumin. The calibration curve was linear in the range of