hypersensitivity pneumonitis
Hypersensitivity pneumonitis
... Hypersensitivity pneumonitis (HP) is a pulmonary disease with symptoms of dyspnea and cough resulting from the inhalation of an antigen to which the subject has been previously ...
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Genetic Diversity and Biochemical Characteristics ofTrichosporon asahii Isolated from Clinical Specimens, Houses of Patients with Summer Type Hypersensitivity Pneumonitis, and Environmental Materials
... Trichosporon asahii, which is distributed in the environment, is the major causative agent of the opportunistic infection trichosporonosis, and it also causes summer-type hypersensitivity pneumonitis (SHP). ...
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Quantifying serum antibody in bird fanciers' hypersensitivity pneumonitis
... Hypersensitivity Pneumonitis is an important example of Interstitial Lung Disease, and is currently being re-assessed in terms of diagnosis and pathogenesis, for which detect- ing serum antibody is an ...
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Familial summer type hypersensitivity pneumonitis in Japan: two case reports and review of the literature
... Summer-type hypersensitivity pneumonitis may be unre- cognized and misdiagnosed as pneumonia or other respiratory ...type hypersensitivity pneumonitis might help improve diagnosis and delivery ...
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Spotlight on the diagnosis of extrinsic allergic alveolitis (hypersensitivity pneumonitis)
... Repeated inhalative exposures to antigenic material from a variety of sources, mainly from moulds, thermophilic Actinomycetes, and avians, respectively, can induce immune responses with the clinical picture of extrinsic ...
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Protein antigen of bird-related hypersensitivity pneumonitis in pigeon serum and dropping
... Many cases of HP are induced by avian antigen. Reed et al. reported the first avian-associated case of HP in a pigeon breeder, in 1965 [3]. Initially the disease was thought to appear mainly in bird breeders. In the ...
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Hypersensitivity Pneumonitis and Acute Respiratory Distress Syndrome From E-Cigarette Use
... with hypersensitivity pneumonitis and intravenous methylprednisolone therapy was ...of hypersensitivity pneumonitis and acute respiratory distress syndrome as a risk of e-cigarette use in an ...
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Clinico- pathologic presentation of hypersensitivity pneumonitis in Egyptian patients: a multidisciplinary study
... of hypersensitivity pneumonitis was proposed in the literature by the repeated inhalation of spe- cific antigens from environmental exposure in sensitized in- dividuals, which develops as a result of a ...
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Analysis of Trichosporon Isolates Obtained from the Houses of Patients with Summer Type Hypersensitivity Pneumonitis
... Summer-type hypersensitivity pneumonitis (SHP) is type III or IV allergies developed by repeated inhalation of arthroconidia of Trichosporon species. We identified 105 strains obtained from the homes of 36 ...
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Lymphangiogenic factors are associated with the severity of hypersensitivity pneumonitis
... No information is available regarding the involvement of lymphatic VEGFs in HP. In this study, the BALF VEGF-D levels were elevated in patients with HP compared to the other groups (ie, healthy controls and patients with ...
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Seasonal variation of serum KL-6 concentrations is greater in patients with hypersensitivity pneumonitis
... house-related hypersensitivity pneumonitis; Bird-HP, bird-related hypersensitivity pneumonitis; CPFE, combined pulmonary fibrosis and emphysema; BAL, bronchoalveolar lavage; TBLB, ...
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Chronic hypersensitivity pneumonitis: identification of key prognostic determinants using automated CT analysis
... Chronic hypersensitivity pneumonitis; CI: Confidence interval; CPI: Composite physiologic index; CT: Computed tomography; DA: Decreased attenuation; DLco: Diffusing capacity for carbon monoxide; FEV1: ...
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Higher serum CCL17 may be a promising predictor of acute exacerbations in chronic hypersensitivity pneumonitis
... Looking at this evidence, we hypothesized that the Th1/Th2 balance varies throughout the clinical course of chronic HP and that an immune response skewed toward Th2 is predictive of AE. In the present study we evaluated ...
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Hypersensitivity pneumonitis
... Hypersensitivity pneumonitis (HP) refers to the inflammatory lung condition that arises from inhalational exposure to various (mostly organic) antigens with the development of lymphocytic alveolitis and ...
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Chronic hypersensitivity pneumonitis
... Abstract: Hypersensitivity pneumonitis (HSP) is a common interstitial lung disease resulting from inhalation of a large variety of antigens by susceptible ...
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Interaction between Primary Care Physicians and Specialists for Diagnosis and Management of Hypersensitivity Pneumonitis
... Objective: Hypersensitivity pneumonitis (HP) may be a complex syndrome rather than a single, uniform disease entity. The problems associated with HP treatment include a lack of awareness of primary care ...
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Hypersensitivity pneumonitis: a complex lung disease
... patients with a suspect of HP, a careful environmental and occupational history should guide the use of specific panels of precipitating antibodies, but the lack of consen- sus on disease definition limits the ...
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An animal model of hypersensitivity pneumonitis in the rabbit
... of hypersensitivity pneumonitis in order to study both the induction and the elicitation of the ...cell-medid hypersensitivity to the inhaled antigen, as well as the development of pulmonary lesions ...
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Interferon gamma is necessary for the expression of hypersensitivity pneumonitis
... Induction of hypersensitivity pneumonitis. HP was induced by in- stalling 150 m g of SR antigen in saline, intranasally, under light anes- thesia. The material was applied at the tip of the nose and inhaled ...
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Mimicking hypersensitivity pneumonitis as an uncommon initial presentation of chronic granulomatous disease in children
... hypersensitivity pneumonitis (HP) are rare initial presentation in chronic granulomatous disease (CGD). CGD is remarkable for increased susceptibility to bacterial and fungal infections as well as high ...
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