title: Treatment of a patient with chronic bronchial asthma with many bronchoscopies and lavages using acetylcysteine: a case report.
abstract: This Case Report is that of a young woman followed for 21 years, whose life was saved repeatedly by bronchoscopy and lavage to remove mucous plugs and casts from the tracheobronchial tree. In 1982, after again having a respiratory crisis and not having a bronchoscopy and lavage, she died. The pathology revealed a thickened hyalinized basement membrane and numerous mucous plugs filling the larger bronchi and bronchioles.
mesh_terms: D000111:Acetylcysteine / Q000627:therapeutic use*; D000328:Adult; D001249:Asthma / Q000473:pathology / Q000628:therapy*; D001980:Bronchi / Q000473:pathology; D001999:Bronchoscopy; D002908:Chronic Disease; D003131:Combined Modality Therapy; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008168:Lung / Q000473:pathology; D013224:Status Asthmaticus / Q000473:pathology / Q000628:therapy; D007507:Therapeutic Irrigation
chemical_list: D000111:Acetylcysteine