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From: Optimising the yield from bronchoalveolar lavage on human participants in infectious disease immunology research

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Bronchoscopy and bronchoalveolar lavage. (A) A research participant is about to have a Fujifilm flexible videoscope with 3.2 mm working channel inserted through her nose while under conscious sedation. Clinicians performing the procedure are authors STM and JAS. (B) Sequential photos from within the airways (from top to bottom: vocal cords before intubation, main carina, and right middle lobe medial segment subsegmental bronchi) taken with the bronchoscope. (C) Results of the bronchoalveolar lavage in a non-smoker, aliquots of saline with foamy surfactant on the surface. (D) An example of significant staining of the lavage fluid with black particulate matter from tobacco smoking.

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