Table 1.
Baseline characteristics of 124 included patients with suspected ILD.
Fig 1.
Percentage of diagnoses for each method and percentage of patients not diagnosed by either of the two biopsy methods.
Table 2.
Multidisciplinary Meeting (MDM) diagnoses by biopsy technique.
Table 3.
Diagnostic yield for multidisciplinary committee review of diagnoses by biopsy technique.
Table 4.
Multidisciplinary committee diagnoses by biopsy technique according to diffuse interstitial classification.
Table 5.
Number of complications according to biopsy technique.
Fig 2.
Different airway management approaches to transbronchial biopsy with cryoprobe and placement of the occlusion balloon.
(a) Intubation using a bronchoscope and a flexible endotracheal tube (Bronchoflex 7.5 mm, Rüsch, Teleflex Medical, Durham, NC, USA). (b) Intubation and occlusion balloon insertion using a rigid bronchoscope. (c) Intubation and occlusion balloon insertion using a laryngeal mask.