Increased IL-6 and TGF-beta1 concentrations in bronchoalveolar lavage fluid associated with thoracic radiotherapy.

Purpose: To assess, in lung cancer patients, the effects of thoracic radiotherapy (RT) on the concentrations of transforming growth factor-beta(1) (TGF-beta(1)) and interleukin-6 (IL-6) in the bronchoalveolar lavage (BAL) fluid.

Methods And Materials: Eleven patients with lung cancer requiring RT as part of their treatment were studied. BAL was performed bilaterally before, during, and 1, 3, and 6 months after RT.

Radiological changes under effect of mebendazole on univesicular hydatid cysts in the liver and lung.

Mebendazole was given to a patient who had developed four univesicular hydatid cysts in 16 months following initial infection (two in the liver and two in the lungs). The size of the cysts varied from five to ten centimeters in diameter. The therapeutic effect of the drug was assessed by ultrasound, computed tomography and chest x-ray examination.