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Official American Thoracic Society Clinical Practice Guidelines: diagnostic evaluation of infants with recurrent orPersistent wheezing

Ren, Clement L; Esther, Charles R; Debley, Jason S; Sockrider, Marianna; Amin, Nikhil; Bazzy-Asaad, Alia; Davis, Stephanie D; Durand, Manuel; Ewig, Jeffrey M; Yuksel, Hasan; Lombardi, Enrico; Noah, Terry L; Radford, Peggy; Ranganathan, Sarath; Teper, Alejandro; Weinberger, Miles; Brozek, Jan; Wilson, Kevin C.

Am. j. respir. crit. care med; 194 (3), 2016

Infantile wheezing is a common problem, but there are no guidelines for the evaluation of infants with recurrent or persistent wheezing that is not relieved or prevented by standard therapies. An American Thoracic Society-sanctioned guideline development committee selected clinical questions related to u...

Respiratory Sounds/physiology, Standard of Care/standards, Bronchoscopy/methods, Bronchoalveolar Lavage, United States

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Technical aspects of endobronchial ultrasound-guided transbronchial needle aspiration: CHEST guideline and expert panel report

Chest; 149 (3), 2016

BACKGROUND: Endobronchial ultrasound (EBUS) was introduced in the last decade, enabling real-time guidance of transbronchial needle aspiration (TBNA) of mediastinal and hilar structures and parabronchial lung masses. The many publications produced about EBUS-TBNA have led to a better understanding of the...