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My 11 month old son has been in hospital for two months and has spent the last three weeks in intensive care breathing with the aid of a machine. Doctors believe he has a secondary infection of the lungs but all tests have provided negative results. In a final attempt to find a diagnosis and treatment a lung biopsy is planned. What might this find that other tests haven't? |
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Resistant infections in the lungs may be difficult to diagnose unless a tissue culture is obtained. If blood tests, sputum, gastric lavage, bronchoalveolar lavage are all negative and the lungs still continue to harbor infection that does not respond to standard line of treatment then lung biopsy may be required to get the diagnosis.
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