What is the correct medical term for having a"dirty lung"?

My uncle was diagnosed with something the Dr. referred to as dirty lung and he could not rem the correct medical term.said it was very rare condition and he is scheduledd for having his lungs washed out?How safe is this?

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Hi. I have a little daughter with an interstitial lung disease, so I tend to do a lot of reading about the lungs. I've never heard of "dirty lung," but I have read about whole lung lavage being performed for treatment of pulmonary alveolar proteinosis. It might be something similar to that. I'm putting a link below to a brief description of PAP and a short description of how the lavage is done. Good luck to you and your uncle.

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I've heard that dirty lungs is the doctors way of saying that there is something suspicious on your lung X-rays. A lung wash is used to obtain samples of suspicious cells. This procedure is performed by flushing a small amount of sterile saline solution through the bronchoscope and into the airways.
There is no such diagnosis or treatment. Is he a miner or something with silico-anthracosis?
it's more properly known as a NLTWB (Naughty Lung That Won't Take a Bath.)
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