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14584397

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rdf:type
lifeskim:mentions
pubmed:issue
10
pubmed:dateCreated
2003-10-30
pubmed:abstractText
A 34-year-old woman who had been keeping five budgerigars in her home was admitted with cough and progressive exertional dyspnea that had continued for three months. Chest CT scan demonstrated diffuse centrilobular nodular opacities throughout both lung fields. Flexible bronchoscopy revealed polypoid lesions with diameters of 2-3 mm located at the right B1/B2 spur. B3a/B3b spur and middle/lower bronchus spur. Their surfaces were glossy and smooth but slightly lobulated. The histological findings were consistent with inflammatory polyps containing lymphoid follicles in a dense infiltrate of lymphocytes. A positive environmental provocation test and precipitating antibodies confirmed the diagnosis of hypersensitivity pneumonitis (HP) caused by budgerigars (bird fanciers' lung). To our knowledge, there is no previous report of HP accompanied with endobronchial polyps, but this rare case shows the involvement of large airways in HP.
pubmed:language
jpn
pubmed:journal
pubmed:citationSubset
IM
pubmed:status
MEDLINE
pubmed:month
Oct
pubmed:issn
1343-3490
pubmed:author
pubmed:issnType
Print
pubmed:volume
41
pubmed:owner
NLM
pubmed:authorsComplete
Y
pubmed:pagination
746-9
pubmed:dateRevised
2006-11-15
pubmed:meshHeading
pubmed:year
2003
pubmed:articleTitle
[A case of bird fanciers' lung with endobronchial polyps].
pubmed:affiliation
Third Department of Internal Medicine, National Defense Medical College, 3-2 Namiki, Tokorozawa, Saitama, 359-8513, Japan.
pubmed:publicationType
Journal Article, English Abstract, Case Reports