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Hypersensitivity Pneumonitis [PDF]

open access: yesWorkplace Health & Safety, 2016
Chronic exposure to a broad array of antigens after workers inhale aerosolized organic dust particles from mold, animal dander, bird droppings, and chemicals, especially pesticides or herbicides, increases risk for hypersensitivity pneumonitis. Several demographic characteristics of immigrant workers in farming, poultry processing, construction, and ...
Kristi, Wysong   +2 more
openaire   +3 more sources

Biopsy-proven recurrent, acute, familial hypersensitivity pneumonitis: A case report and literature review

open access: yesRespiratory Medicine Case Reports, 2018
Hypersensitivity pneumonitis (HP) is characterized by inflammation of the lung parenchyma that is induced by exposure to an inhaled organic antigen. We present a case of recurrent, acute HP caused by repeated transient exposure to a down sleeping bag in ...
Tiffany Winstone   +5 more
doaj   +1 more source

Cosmetic Talc-Related Pulmonary Granulomatosis. [PDF]

open access: yes, 2017
Inhalation of cosmetic talc can lead to pulmonary foreign-body granulomatosis, though fewer than 10 cases of inhaled cosmetic talc-related pulmonary granulomatosis have been reported in adults.
Adams, Jason Y   +3 more
core   +1 more source

An unusual presentation of a case of human psittacosis [PDF]

open access: yes, 2018
Background: Chlamydia psittaci is a gram-negative, obligate intracellular organism. Birds are the main reservoir, but also non-avian domestic animals and humans can be infected.
Boelens, Jerina   +7 more
core   +3 more sources

Hypersensitivity pneumonitis of a bagpipe player: Fungal antigens as trigger?

open access: yesMedical Mycology Case Reports, 2019
Here we present a 79-year old man with chronic hypersensitivity pneumonitis probably caused by fungal contamination of a bagpipe. Several samples were taken from the patient's bagpipe.
Katharina Ziegler   +5 more
doaj   +1 more source

Bird Fancier's lung: An underdiagnosed etiology of dyspnea

open access: yesRespiratory Medicine Case Reports, 2020
Bird Fancier's Lung is a type of hypersensitivity pneumonitis, an immunologically mediated lung disease due to repetitive exposure of air-borne avian antigen.
Abigayle Sullivan   +4 more
doaj   +1 more source

Imatinib-induced interstitial pneumonitis – a literature review and case report [PDF]

open access: yes, 2020
Imatinib is generally well tolerated, with mild common side effects such as nausea and vomiting, diarrhea, muscle cramps, fatigue, skin rash and edema; however, pulmonary complications are uncommon. A 73-year-old woman undergoing one month treatment with
Ciulei, George   +12 more
core   +2 more sources

Features of transbronchial lung cryobiopsy‐diagnosed fibrotic hypersensitivity pneumonitis

open access: yesThe Clinical Respiratory Journal, 2023
Background Hypersensitivity pneumonitis (HP) is a common type among all the interstitial lung diseases, and transbronchial lung cryobiopsy is an alternative diagnostic technique for interstitial lung diseases.
Xi Zhan   +14 more
doaj   +1 more source

Chemical determinants of occupational hypersensitivity pneumonitis [PDF]

open access: yes, 2015
Background: Workplace inhalational exposures to low molecular weight (LMW) chemicals cause hypersensitivity pneumonitis (HP) as well as the more common manifestation of respiratory hypersensitivity, occupational asthma (OA).
Agius   +8 more
core   +1 more source

Managing toxicities associated with immune checkpoint inhibitors: consensus recommendations from the Society for Immunotherapy of Cancer (SITC) Toxicity Management Working Group. [PDF]

open access: yes, 2017
Cancer immunotherapy has transformed the treatment of cancer. However, increasing use of immune-based therapies, including the widely used class of agents known as immune checkpoint inhibitors, has exposed a discrete group of immune-related adverse ...
Abdallah, K.   +80 more
core   +2 more sources

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