Extrinsic allergic alveolitis with eosinophil infiltration induced by 1,1,1,2-tetrafluoroethane (HFC-134a): A case report

Internal Medicine

Volumn 46, Issue 17, 2007, Pages 1455-1457

  Ishiguro, Takashi ^a   Yasui, Masahide ^a   Nakade, Yusuke ^b   Kimura, Hideharu ^a   Katayama, Nobuyuki ^a   Kasahara, Kazuo ^a   Fujimura, Masaki ^a  

^a KANAZAWA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b KANAZAWA UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Japan)

Author keywords

Eosinophilia; Extrinsic allergic alveolitis; HFC 134a

Indexed keywords

BRONCHODILATING AGENT; C REACTIVE PROTEIN; CARBON MONOXIDE; HYDROCORTISONE SODIUM SUCCINATE; NORFLURANE; FLUORINATED HYDROCARBON; PROPELLANT;

ACUTE RESPIRATORY FAILURE; ADULT; ALLERGIC PNEUMONITIS; ARTERIAL GAS; ARTICLE; ASTHMA; BASOPHIL; BLOOD PRESSURE; BODY TEMPERATURE; BREATHING RATE; CARBON DIOXIDE TENSION; CASE REPORT; CELL COUNT; CELL INFILTRATION; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; COUGHING; DIODE LASER; DYSPNEA; EOSINOPHIL; EOSINOPHILIA; ERYTHROCYTE SEDIMENTATION RATE; ESTHETIC SURGERY; FEMALE; FEVER; FORCED EXPIRATORY VOLUME; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HUMAN TISSUE; LUNG DIFFUSION CAPACITY; LUNG INFILTRATE; LUNG LAVAGE; LYMPHOCYTE COUNT; LYMPHOCYTOSIS; MONOCYTE; NEUTROPHIL; OCCUPATION; OXYGEN TENSION; PH; PROVOCATION TEST; PULSE RATE; SYMPTOM; THORAX RADIOGRAPHY; TRANSBRONCHIAL BIOPSY; WHEEZING; WORKPLACE; AIR POLLUTANT; CHEMICALLY INDUCED DISORDER; METHODOLOGY; OCCUPATIONAL DISEASE; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE;

ADULT; AEROSOL PROPELLANTS; AIR POLLUTANTS, OCCUPATIONAL; ALVEOLITIS, EXTRINSIC ALLERGIC; EOSINOPHILIA; FEMALE; HAIR REMOVAL; HUMANS; HYDROCARBONS, FLUORINATED; OCCUPATIONAL DISEASES; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE;

EID: 34548783875     PISSN: 09182918     EISSN: 13497235     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2169/internalmedicine.46.0185     Document Type: Article

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