Sara Tomassetti, Luca Ciani, Valentina Luzzi, Leonardo Gori, Marco Trigiani, Leonardo Giuntoli, Federico Lavorini, Venerino Poletti, Claudia Ravaglia, Alfons Torrego, Fabien Maldonado, Robert Lentz, Francesco Annunziato, Laura Maggi, Gian Maria Rossolini, Simona Pollini, Ombretta Para, Greta Ciurleo, Alessandro Casini, Laura Rasero, Alessandro Bartoloni, Michele Spinicci, Mohammed Munavvar, Stefano Gasparini, Camilla Comin, Marco Matucci Cerinic, Anna Peired, Monique Henket, Benoit Ernst, Renaud Louis, Jean-Louis Corhay, Cosimo Nardi, Julien Guiot
Diagnosing COVID-19 and treating its complications remains a challenge. This review reflects the perspective of some of the Dragon (IMI 2-call 21, #101005122) research consortium collaborators on the utility of bronchoalveolar lavage (BAL) in COVID-19. BAL has been proposed as a potentially useful diagnostic tool to increase COVID-19 diagnosis sensitivity. In both critically ill and non-critically ill COVID-19 patients, BAL has a relevant role in detecting other infections or supporting alternative diagnoses and can change management decisions in up to two-thirds of patients...
2024: Frontiers in Medicine