bronchoalveolar lavage

Preferred Label : bronchoalveolar lavage;

MeSH definition : Washing out of the lungs with saline or mucolytic agents for diagnostic or therapeutic purposes. It is very useful in the diagnosis of diffuse pulmonary infiltrates in immunosuppressed patients.;

MeSH synonym : lavages, bronchioalveolar; bronchopulmonary lavages; lung lavages; lavage, lung; bronchopulmonary lavage; bronchioalveolar lavage; lavages, lung; lung lavage; lavages, bronchopulmonary; bronchoalveolar lavages; lavage, bronchoalveolar; lavages, bronchoalveolar; lavage, bronchopulmonary; bronchioalveolar lavages; lavage, bronchioalveolar;

MeSH hyponym : bronchial lavage; Bronchial Lavages; Lavage, Bronchial; Lavages, Bronchial;

MeSH annotation : an irrigation technique: do not confuse with BRONCHOALVEOLAR LAVAGE FLUID, the washings obtained by lavage; DF: note short X ref; an irrigation technique: do not confuse with BRONCHOALVEOLAR LAVAGE FLUID, the washings obtained by lavage;

Wikipedia link : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bronchoalveolar lavage;

Details

Origin ID

D018893;

UMLS CUI

C1535502;

Allowable qualifiers
- adverse effects [MeSH Qualifier]
- classification [MeSH Qualifier]
- contraindications [MeSH Qualifier]
- economics [MeSH Qualifier]
- ethics [MeSH Qualifier]
- history [MeSH Qualifier]
- instrumentation [MeSH Qualifier]
- methods [MeSH Qualifier]
- mortality [MeSH Qualifier]
- nursing [MeSH Qualifier]
- psychology [MeSH Qualifier]
- standards [MeSH Qualifier]
- statistics and numerical data [MeSH Qualifier]
- trends [MeSH Qualifier]
- veterinary [MeSH Qualifier]
Currated CISMeF NLP mapping
- Bronchoalveolar Lavage [NCIt concept]
- Bronchoalveolar lavage [MedDRA Preferred Term]
- catheterization of bronchus with lavage, nos [SNOMED Notion]
False automatic mappings
- BAL [ICD-11 Extension code]
Metaterm(s)
- pulmonology [CISMeF Metaterm]
Ne pas confondre avec
- bronchoalveolar lavage fluid [MeSH Descriptor]
Record concept(s)
- bronchial lavage [MeSH concept]
- bronchoalveolar lavage [MeSH concept]
See also (suggested by CISMeF)
- bronchoalveolar lavage fluid [MeSH Descriptor]
Semantic type(s)
- Therapeutic or Preventive Procedure [UMLS semantic type]
UMLS correspondences (same concept)
- Bronchioloalveolar lavage (procedure) [Inactive SNOMED CT concept]
- Bronchoalveolar Lavage [NCIt concept]
- Bronchoalveolar lavage [MedDRA Preferred Term]
- Bronchoalveolar lavage (procedure) [SNOMED CT concept]
- Bronchoalveolar lavage (procedure) [Inactive SNOMED CT concept]

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