Concurrent features of sarcoidosis and hypersensitivity pneumonitis in two patients exposed to fungal antigens [PDF]
BMC Pulmonary Medicine, 2023 Background Sarcoidosis and hypersensitivity pneumonitis (HP) are two distinct clinical entities that share granulomatous inflammation, although each of them has specific clinical, radiologic and pathologic profiles.
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Stability of serum precipitins to Aspergillus fumigatus for the diagnosis of allergic bronchopulmonary aspergillosis [PDF]
Allergy, Asthma & Clinical Immunology, 2020 Background Allergic bronchopulmonary aspergillosis (ABPA) reflects hypersensitivity and an exaggerated immune response to Aspergillus fumigatus. ABPA typically occurs in individuals with airway diseases such as asthma or cystic fibrosis and is associated
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Precipitins to Grass Pollen Proteins [PDF]
Nature, 1953 THE skin-reactive substances of grass pollen extracts used in clinical allergy have recently been shown to be proteins of average molecular weight 14,0001. Only two instances of a precipitating anti-serum to grass pollen extracts are known2,3.
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Role of Aspergillus Specific IgG Titres as a Therapeutic Target for Chronic Pulmonary Aspergillosis: A Longitudinal Study [PDF]
Journal of Clinical and Diagnostic Research, 2023 Introduction: Chronic Pulmonary Aspergillosis (CPA) continues to be an enigma to clinicians in regions with a high prevalence of pulmonary tuberculosis and is often misdiagnosed as the latter, attributable to the significant overlap in symptoms and ...
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Diagnostic performance of various tests and criteria employed in allergic bronchopulmonary aspergillosis: a latent class analysis. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2013 AIM: The efficiency of various investigations and diagnostic criteria used in diagnosis of allergic bronchopulmonary aspergillosis (ABPA) remain unknown, primarily because of the lack of a gold standard.
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Extrinsic allergic pneumonitis - classification, pathogenesis, diagnosis
Journal of Education, Health and Sport, 2023 Introduction and objective: Extrinsic allergic pneumonitis (AZPP) is an inflammatory disease of the lung parenchyma and bronchioles, caused by inhalation of organic and inorganic antigens.
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Žurnal Grodnenskogo Gosudarstvennogo Medicinskogo Universiteta, 2020 Chronic pulmonary aspergillosis (CPA) is a disease which is diffcult to diagnose and which complicates other respiratory diseases. Forms of CPA include chronic cavitary pulmonary aspergillosis, chronic fbrosing pulmonary aspergillosis, simple ...
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Clinical, radiological, and immunological assessment of allergic bronchopulmonary aspergillosis
Indian Journal of Allergy Asthma and Immunology, 2020 INTRODUCTION: Allergic bronchopulmonary aspergillosis (ABPA) is an immunologically mediated lung disease, predominantly in patients with asthma and is caused by hypersensitivity to colonized dimorphic fungus Aspergillus, commonly Aspergillus fumigatus ...
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Allergic bronchopulmonary aspergillosis: diagnostic and treatment challenges [PDF]
, 2016 Allergic bronchopulmonary aspergillosis (ABPA) is a pulmonary disorder, occurring mostly in asthmatic and cystic fibrosis patients, caused by an abnormal T-helper 2 lymphocyte response of the host to Aspergillus fumigatus antigens.
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