Successful treatment of hypersensitivity pneumonitis caused by Grifola frondosa (Maitake) mushroom using a HFA-BDP extra-fine aerosol

Internal Medicine

Volumn 43, Issue 8, 2004, Pages 737-740

  Tanaka, Hiroshi ^b   Tsunematsu, Kazunori ^a   Nakamura, Naohito ^a   Suzuki, Kazuhiko ^b   Tanaka, Nobuyuki ^b   Takeya, Isao ^a   Saikai, Toyohiro ^b   Abe, Shosaku ^b  

^a Hokkaido Tomakomai Hospital   (Japan)

^b SAPPORO MEDICAL UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

Author keywords

Beclomethasone dipropinate; Hydrofluoroalkane; Hypersensitivity pneumonitis; Inhaled corticosteroid; Mushroom spore

Indexed keywords

BECLOMETASONE DIPROPIONATE; CHLOROFLUOROCARBON; CORTICOSTEROID; NORFLURANE; PREDNISONE;

ADULT; AEROSOL; AGRICULTURAL WORKER; ALLERGIC PNEUMONITIS; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; DISEASE SEVERITY; DRUG EFFICACY; FEMALE; HUMAN; LUNG ALVEOLUS; METERED DOSE INHALER; MUSHROOM; OCCUPATIONAL DISEASE; PARTICLE SIZE; RELAPSE; SERODIAGNOSIS; THORAX RADIOGRAPHY; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ADMINISTRATION, INHALATION; AEROSOL PROPELLANTS; AGARICALES; AGRICULTURAL WORKERS' DISEASES; ALVEOLITIS, EXTRINSIC ALLERGIC; BECLOMETHASONE; FEMALE; GLUCOCORTICOIDS; HUMANS; HYDROCARBONS, FLUORINATED; MIDDLE AGED; SPORES, FUNGAL;

EID: 4644255396     PISSN: 09182918     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2169/internalmedicine.43.737     Document Type: Article

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