| detection of fungi and other pathogens in immunocompromised patients by bronchoalveolar lavage in an area endemic for coccidioidomycosis. | bronchoalveolar lavage (bal) was performed in 51 adult immunocompromised patients (30 acquired immunodeficiency syndrome [aids] and 21 non-aids) as part of an extensive diagnostic evaluation for diffuse pulmonary infiltrates. because multiple episodes occurred in several patients, a total of 60 bals were performed. a diagnosis of fungal pneumonia was eventually made in 12 patients (24 percent). the organism was identified in bals from seven of the 12, including five of seven cases of cocciodoido ... | 1990 | 2161329 |
| heart-lung transplantation: the initial arizona experience. | since november 1985, cardiopulmonary transplantation has been performed at the university of arizona heart transplant program. seven patients, five women and two men, have undergone heart-lung transplantation. five patients had primary pulmonary hypertension, and two patients had eisenmenger's complex. the mean age was 31 years (range, 17 to 43 years). average follow-up was 15 months (range, 3 to 34 months), with a total of 115 patient-months. there have been no operative or late deaths. immunos ... | 1989 | 2554069 |
| stealth virus epidemic in the mohave valley. i. initial report of virus isolation. | increasing numbers of patients within the mohave valley region of the united states are reporting symptoms attributable to atypical neurological illness. many of these patients have experienced an acute-onset gastrointestinal illness during the spring and summer of 1996. stealth viral cultures performed on the blood of 40 of these patients have been uniformly positive, yielding unequivocal transmissible cytopathic effect (cpe) in both human- and monkey-derived cell lines. one patient has died fr ... | 1997 | 9200190 |
| a cluster of microvillous inclusion disease in the navajo population. | we report 4 unrelated patients with characteristic microscopic findings of microvillous inclusion disease (mid) with early-onset phenotype. all 4 patients came from the navajo reservation in northern arizona. a literature search revealed a fifth unrelated navajo child with mid. the unusually high incidence in this population indicates that a founder effect might be responsible for an increased frequency of this rare genetic disorder in the navajo. it is recommended that all navajo infants presen ... | 1999 | 9880458 |