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Comment
. 2020 Oct 8;56(4):2001733.
doi: 10.1183/13993003.01733-2020. Print 2020 Oct.

Limited role for bronchoalveolar lavage to exclude COVID-19 after negative upper respiratory tract swabs: a multicentre study

Pietro Geri  1 , Francesco Salton  1 , Lina Zuccatosta  2 , Mario Tamburrini  3 , Marco Biolo  1 , Annalisa Busca  1 , Mario Santagiuliana  1 , Umberto Zuccon  3 , Paola Confalonieri  1 , Barbara Ruaro  1 , Pierlanfranco D'Agaro  4 , Stefano Gasparini  2 , Marco Confalonieri  1
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Limited role for bronchoalveolar lavage to exclude COVID-19 after negative upper respiratory tract swabs: a multicentre study

Pietro Geri et al. Eur Respir J. .

Abstract

Given the strong agreement between negative upper respiratory swabs and BAL, this study suggests that BAL has a limited role in the diagnosis of COVID-19 if thoracic imaging and upper respiratory swabs are concordantly negative https://bit.ly/3gpBC75

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Conflict of interest: P. Geri has nothing to disclose. Conflict of interest: F. Salton has nothing to disclose. Conflict of interest: L. Zuccatosta has nothing to disclose. Conflict of interest: M. Tamburrini has nothing to disclose. Conflict of interest: M. Biolo has nothing to disclose. Conflict of interest: A. Busca has nothing to disclose. Conflict of interest: M. Santagiuliana has nothing to disclose. Conflict of interest: U. Zuccon has nothing to disclose. Conflict of interest: P. Confalonieri has nothing to disclose. Conflict of interest: B. Ruaro has nothing to disclose. Conflict of interest: P. D'Agaro has nothing to disclose. Conflict of interest: S. Gasparini has nothing to disclose. Conflict of interest: M. Confalonieri has nothing to disclose.

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