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rdf:type
lifeskim:mentions
pubmed:issue
5
pubmed:dateCreated
1997-6-3
pubmed:abstractText
As much as one-third of patients develop fever and flu-like symptoms after fiberoptic bronchoscopy (FOB) and bronchoalveolar lavage (BAL) for yet unknown reasons. The aim of the present study was to investigate factors mediating these side effects. Fifty consecutive patients with various pulmonary diseases who underwent FOB without further interventions (n = 30) or combined with BAL (n = 20) were enrolled. Serum levels of the proinflammatory cytokines IL-1beta, IL-6, and TNF-alpha were determined directly prior to (t0), directly after (t1), and 6 h after (t2) the procedures by ELISA. In parallel, blood cultures were drawn at t2. At to and t1, generally only low cytokine concentrations could be detected. At t2, however, significant increases of cytokine levels were found. IL-6 and TNF-alpha were significantly higher in patients after BAL than in patients after FOB. Comparing patients who developed fever (n = 12) with those who did not (n = 38), irrespective of the endoscopic procedures performed, dramatic increases of all three cytokines were detected in febrile patients that were significantly higher than in patients without fever. In the FOB group only patients who received local anesthesia by prilocaine bolus injection into the airways via the working channel of the bronchoscope developed fever and increases of IL-6 and IL-beta, whereas patients anaesthetized by inhalation of a prilocaine aerosol remained afebrile and had slight IL-6 increases only. There was a highly significant correlation between IL-6 values at t2 and the number of BAL alveolar macrophages (r = 0.98). All blood cultures remained sterile. These results indicate that fever after FOB and BAL is induced by proinflammatory cytokines derived from alveolar macrophages activated by instillation of fluid into the airways.
pubmed:language
eng
pubmed:journal
pubmed:citationSubset
AIM
pubmed:chemical
pubmed:status
MEDLINE
pubmed:month
May
pubmed:issn
1073-449X
pubmed:author
pubmed:issnType
Print
pubmed:volume
155
pubmed:owner
NLM
pubmed:authorsComplete
Y
pubmed:pagination
1793-7
pubmed:dateRevised
2004-11-17
pubmed:meshHeading
pubmed-meshheading:9154894-Adult, pubmed-meshheading:9154894-Aged, pubmed-meshheading:9154894-Aged, 80 and over, pubmed-meshheading:9154894-Anesthesia, Local, pubmed-meshheading:9154894-Anesthetics, Local, pubmed-meshheading:9154894-Bronchoalveolar Lavage, pubmed-meshheading:9154894-Bronchoscopy, pubmed-meshheading:9154894-Cytokines, pubmed-meshheading:9154894-Enzyme-Linked Immunosorbent Assay, pubmed-meshheading:9154894-Female, pubmed-meshheading:9154894-Fever, pubmed-meshheading:9154894-Humans, pubmed-meshheading:9154894-Interleukin-1, pubmed-meshheading:9154894-Interleukin-6, pubmed-meshheading:9154894-Macrophages, Alveolar, pubmed-meshheading:9154894-Male, pubmed-meshheading:9154894-Middle Aged, pubmed-meshheading:9154894-Prilocaine, pubmed-meshheading:9154894-Tumor Necrosis Factor-alpha
pubmed:year
1997
pubmed:articleTitle
Cytokines derived from alveolar macrophages induce fever after bronchoscopy and bronchoalveolar lavage.
pubmed:affiliation
Department of Medicine III, Charité University Hospital, Humboldt University, Berlin, Germany.
pubmed:publicationType
Journal Article