Among them, 78/123 (63.4%) underwent bronchoscopy to obtain bronchoalveolar lavage fluid (BALF) specimens, mNGS of the BALF was performed for 59/123 (48%) patients. In total, 145 patients with ...

Expert Rev Resp Med. 2012;6(5):533-555. Clinical and EA microbiologic criteria are similar for VAT and VAP, but for the diagnosis of VAP, patients must have a new and persistent infiltrate on ...

Dr. Ransom is a graduate of the University of Iowa College of Medicine (1962) and was certified by the American Board of Allergy and Immunology in 1974. He is a Fellow of the American College of ...