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Alveolite alérgica extrínseca com expressão imunológica atípica Extrinsic allergic alveolitis with an atypical immune expression

Revista Portuguesa de Pneumologia, 2009
A alveolite alérgica extrínseca e a sarcoidose são ambas doenças granulomatosas pulmonares que se caracterizam pela presença de granulomas não necrotizantes. Ambas apresentam alterações típicas no lavado broncoalveolar, com relações CD4/CD8 opostas.
Teresa Costa, Cidália Rodrigues, Ana Arrobas   +2 more
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PAS staining of bronchoalveolar lavage cells for differential diagnosis of interstital lung disease

Diagnostic Pathology, 2009
Bronchoalveolar lavage (BAL) is a useful diagnostic tool in interstitial lunge diseases (ILD). However, differential cell counts are often non specific and immunocytochemistry is time consuming.
Zabel Peter, Hauber Hans P
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Pulmonary hypertension and lung transplantation waitlist outcomes for hypersensitivity pneumonitis

JHLT Open
Background: Hypersensitivity pneumonitis is an interstitial lung disease that can progress to pulmonary hypertension which increases mortality. The European Society of Cardiology recently reduced the diagnostic criteria for precapillary pulmonary ...
Michael J. Nicholson, DO, Zehra Dhanani, MBBS, Shameek Gayen, MD   +2 more
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Significance of specific IgG against sensitizing antigens in extrinsic allergic alveolitis: Serological methods in EAA

Revista Portuguesa de Pneumologia, 2011
The aim of our study is to find differences in IgG in sera of potentially exposed and nonexposed individuals and to detect differences in concentrations of specific serum IgG among subjects with and without EAA.Seventy-two patients being followed for ...
M. Sterclova, M. Vasakova, M. Metlicka
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Chronic hypersensitivity pneumonitis

Journal of Asthma and Allergy, 2016
Carlos AC Pereira,1 Andréa Gimenez,2 Lilian Kuranishi,2 Karin Storrer 2 1Interstitial Lung Diseases Program, 2Pulmonology Postgraduate, Federal University of São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil Abstract: Hypersensitivity pneumonitis ...
Pereira CA, Gimenez A, Kuranishi L, Storrer K   +3 more
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Bagassosis, rare cause of hypersensitivity pneumonitis: A case report

Iberoamerican Journal of Medicine, 2020
Hypersensitivity pneumonitis (HP), also called extrinsic allergic alveolitis, is a respiratory syndrome involving the lung parenchyma specifically the alveoli, terminal bronchioles and alveolar interstitium.
Tyagi Arun, Jadhav Sagar, Waghmare Manoj, Srivastava AK, Khare AB   +4 more
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CYTOLOGY OF BRONCHOALVEOLAR LAVAGE FLUID IN THE INTERSTITIAL LUNG DISEASES

Zdravniški Vestnik, 2003
Background. By the bronchoscopic lavaging we obtain cytological specimen of the peripheral airways and lung parenchyma. Bronchoalveolar lavage fluid (BALF) examination gives us information about inflammation in the interstitial lung diseases.
Izidor Kern, Damijan Eržen, Peter Kecelj, Mitja Košnik, Milivoj Mermolja   +4 more
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Comparative survival analysis between idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis and chronic hypersensitivity pneumonitis

Pulmonology, 2020
Introduction Chronic hypersensitivity pneumonitis (CHP) is an interstitial lung disease with limited treatment response and bad prognosis. Sometimes it is indistinguishable from idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis (IPF) becoming one of the main differential ...
Maria Laura Alberti, Jose María Malet Ruiz, Martin Eduardo Fernández, Leandro Fassola, Fabián Caro, Ivette Buendía Roldán, Francisco Paulin   +6 more
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A Rare Case of Non-Small Cell Carcinoma of Lung Presenting as Miliary Mottling

Iranian Journal of Medical Sciences, 2013
Miliary mottling on chest radiography is seen in miliary tuberculosis, certain fungal infections, sarcoidosis, coal miner’s pneumoconiosis, silicosis, hemosiderosis, fibrosing alveolitis, acute extrinsic allergic alveolitis, pulmonary eosinophilic ...
Ballaekere Jayaram Subhashchandra, Mohammed Ismailkhan, Kuppegala Chikkaveeraiah Shashidhar, Moda Gopalakrishna Narahari   +3 more
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A case of hypersensitivity pneumonitis in a worker exposed to terephthalic acid in the production of polyethylene terephthalate

International Journal of Occupational Medicine and Environmental Health, 2020
Occupational hypersensitivity pneumonitis (OHP) is an interstitial lung disease caused by sensitization to an inhaled antigen. Polyethylene terephthalate (PET) is mainly used for disposable beverage bottles.
Pietro Sartorelli, Gabriele d'Hauw, Donatella Spina, Luca Volterrani, Maria Antonietta Mazzei   +4 more
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