Table 1.
Bronchoalveolar lavage cytology results
| Case type | No. | Mucus | Squames | OPB | Inflammatory cells | N | H | E | L | Mixed | Macrophagepigment | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Many | Mod | Few | None | NR | |||||||||||
| LRTI | 19 | 19 | 6 | 0 | 18 | 1 | 17 | 2 | 3 | ||||||
| LRTI revisit | 2 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 2 | |||||||
| FBD | 26 | 26 | 10 | 4 | 23 | 2 | 1 | 13 | 3 | 8 | 2 | 11 | |||
| Cardiac | 2 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 2 | |||||||
| Neoplastic | 8 | 8 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 4 | ||
| Multisystemic | 3 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 2 | ||||||
| Inconclusive | 28 | 26 | 8 | 5 | 19 | 6 | 3 | 12 | 6 | 3 | 7 | 11 | |||
| Total | 88 | 86 | 29 | 11 | 65 | 15 | 6 | 1 | 1 | 45 | 17 | 11 | 1 | 13 | 35 |
Abbreviations: LRTI=lower respiratory tract infection; FBD=feline bronchial disease; OPB=oropharyngeal bacteria; Mod=moderate; NR=not recorded; N=neutrophilic; H=histiocytic; E=eosinophilic; L=lymphocytic.