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cord-340544-ce5ic04g	Sakata, Kenneth K.	Microbiologic yield of bronchoalveolar lavage specimens from stem cell transplant recipients	2017-04-12		.txt	text/plain	1890	128	41	PURPOSE: Stem cell transplant (SCT) recipients commonly undergo bronchoalveolar lavage (BAL) collection as an infectious pulmonary work‐up. Previous studies report the utility and overall diagnostic yield of fiberoptic bronchoscopy with BAL in this vulnerable population, though none focused purely on microbiologic yield or made comparisons with less invasive means of pathogen detection. We sought to determine and elaborate on the microbiologic yield of BAL in SCT recipients, assess a correlation between BAL studies and less invasive means of pathogen detection, and assess the utility of repeating a BAL within 30 days. RESULTS: Our study showed an overall BAL microbiologic yield of 40%, despite 92% of patients receiving broad‐spectrum antimicrobial therapy at the time of the BAL procedure. We therefore sought to determine and elaborate the overall microbiologic yield of BAL in recipients of autologous (auto-SCT) and allogeneic (allo-SCT) SCTs, who underwent an infectious pulmonary work-up at our institution.	./cache/cord-340544-ce5ic04g.txt	./txt/cord-340544-ce5ic04g.txt