Spotlight on the diagnosis of extrinsic allergic alveolitis (hypersensitivity pneumonitis)

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• 作者：Xaver Baur ; Axel Fischer ; Lygia T Budnik
• 刊名：Journal of Occupational Medicine and Toxicology
• 出版年：2015
• 出版时间：December 2015
• 年：2015
• 卷：10
• 期：1
• 全文大小：1,218 KB
• 刊物主题：Occupational Medicine/Industrial Medicine;
• 出版者：BioMed Central
• ISSN：1745-6673

文摘

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 allergic alveolitis (EAA) or hypersensitivity pneumonitis. Delays of years or even decades till the diagnosis is made are not uncommon; frequent misdiagnoses include allergic asthma, COPD, recurrent flue and other infections. We provide here the state of the art references, a detailed case description and recommend a current diagnostics schema.