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. 2010 May;160(2):256–265. doi: 10.1111/j.1365-2249.2009.04076.x

Table 2.

Total and differential cell counts for bronchoalveolar lavage fluid (BALF) and peripheral blood (PB) from patients and controls.

	SARC	HP	HC
Characteristics	(n = 23)	(n = 7)	(n = 24)
Total BALF cells (×10⁴/ml)	31·1 (9·9–65·0)^*	26·2 (5·1–102·9)^‡	10·1 (4·3–16·3)
Cell types:
Alveolar macrophages %	65·2 (13·4–84·6)^*	67·6 (8·5–79·7)^*	87·1 (56·3–96·8)
(×10⁴/ml)	16·0 (6·8–34·5)^*	9·8 (4·0–21·2)	8·2 (3·9–15·8)
Lymphocytes %	47·0 (15·0–83·0)^*	37·0 (31·0–80·0)^*	9·6 (2·3–39·9)
(×10⁴/ml)	11·2 (1·5–54·0)^*	9·9 (1·8–82·3)^*	0·9 (0·3–5·4)
Neutrophils %	1·1 (0·1–2·4)^‡	1·9 (0·5–4·7)	1·6 (0·1–8·1)
(×10⁴/ml)	0·3 (0·02–1·0)	0·8 (0·07–2·0)	0·2 (0·0–0·8)
Eosinophils %	0·5 (0·1–4·1)	0·7 (0·1–3·0)	0·3 (0·0–4·1)
(×10⁴/ml)	0·1 (0·01–0·7)^†	0·3 (0·01–0·9)^†	0·03 (0·0–0·4)
BALF CD4/CD8 cell ratio	3·6 (0·5–25·2)^*	0·8 (0·6–6·3)	1·1 (0·2–11·0)
Total PB cells (×10⁶/ml)	5·6 (3·2–14·4)^§	7·7 (6·5–11·2)	5·8 (3·2–9·0)^§
Lymphocytes %	23·0 (11·0–44·0)^*	25·0 (20·0–36·0)	33·5 (20·6–49·9)
(×10⁶/ml)	1·3 (0·4–2·5)	1·8 (1·4–3·2)^¶	1·9 (1·3–2·8)^¶
PB CD4/CD8 cell ratio	1·2 (0·4–3·3)^‡	2·0 (0·6–4·0)	1·8 (0·9–5·8)

Significantly different from healthy controls (HC):

^*

P < 0·001;

^†

P < 0·01;

^‡

P < 0·05. Significantly different from hypersensitivity pneumonitis (HP):

^§

P < 0·05. Significantly different from sarcoidosis (SARC);

^¶

P < 0·01. Numbers are presented as median (range). BALF: bronchoalveolar lavage fluid.