Sputum

1. At the very least, it may have served a dual purpose of dulling the smell of unburied corpses, sputum, and ruptured bouboules in plague victims.
2. Figure 12: Rock squirrel in extremis coughing up blood-streaked sputum of pneumonic plague. (Web site)
3. As the larva passes through the lungs, it causes episodes of coughing with bloody sputum. (Web site)

Patients

1. The 24 hour purulent sputum volume ranged from 2 to 113ml with a median of about 20ml.
2. This will assess the steroid responsiveness of the purulent sputum in the individual patient.
3. Interpretation of bronchograms and chest radiographs in patients with chronic sputum production.
4. Only 3 of 19 patients with purulent sputum between acute episodes responded, with reappearance of purulent sputum in a median of four days.
5. All 14 patients, half with mucoid & half with mucopurulent sputum between episodes of acute bronchitis responded to the lower dose.

Airways

1. The millions of cilia lining the airways 'sweep' the mucus to the back of the throat to form sputum (phlegm) which is swallowed.
2. Airway distortion, sputum production, infection, and inflammation are essential features of this vicious cycle.

Bronchial

1. Chronic airway inflammation leads to bronchial dilation and destruction, resulting in recurrent sputum overproduction and pneumonitis.
2. These are sputum cultures, bronchial washings (examining the secretions from the lung), and blood tests for evidence of fungal infections.

Cough

1. The ensuing flu-like illness progresses rapidly to overwhelming pneumonia with cough and bloody sputum. (Web site)
2. Forty-eight patients (75%) were symptomatic, and their symptoms included cough, sputum, hemoptysis, elevated temperature, and dyspnea. (Web site)
3. Her cough usually produced 4 to 8 oz of green, thick sputum per day.
4. The clinical manifestations of pulmonary actinomycosis are productive cough, low-grade fever, and bloodtinged sputum.

Pseudomonas

1. Tobramycin solution for inhalation reduces sputum Pseudomonas aeruginosa density in bronchiectasis.
2. At week six, Pseudomonas was undetectable in sputum of 35% of the tobramycin group and still present in all placebo group.

Purulent

1. Purulent sputum volume best discriminated responders and non- responders to prolonged amoxycillin (28).
2. In short course the objective is usually to convert purulent sputum to mucoid or no sputum.
3. Prolonged courses may aim to maintain sputum mucoid or absent and reduce or prevent acute exacerbations.

Neutrophils

1. Assessment of airway neutrophils by sputum colour: correlation with airways inflammation.
2. Sputum recovered by the respiratory therapist reveals numerous neutrophils and gram-negative rods that grow as pink colonies on MacConkey's agar.

Bronchiectasis

1. This baseline data characterises a sample of patients with bronchiectasis expectorating purulent sputum daily.
2. Thirty-six of the 38 patients with bronchiectasis experienced reductions in their daily sputum volumes by half or more.

Antibiotics

1. I prescribe antibiotics in pairs for purulent sputum unresponsive to all oral antibiotics except quinolones.
2. If sputum is unresponsive to oral antibiotics after one to two weeks, I would switch to an alternative.

Sputum Culture

1. It was likely that the overcoat was waxed to simply prevent sputum or other bodily fluids from clinging to it.
2. Stains and cultures of blood, bubo aspirates, sputum, cerebrospinal fluid, or even skin scrapings may be helpful in isolating the organism. (Web site)
3. Inhaled fluticasone reduces sputum inflammatory indices in severe bronchiectasis.
4. Sputum culture is useful for the detection of bacteria other than the expected Haemophilus influenzae.
5. Sputum culture for pyogenic organisms was sterile after 48 hours of incubation.

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