Elevated alveolar nitric oxide concentration after environmental challenge in hypersensitivity pneumonitis

Respirology

Volumn 15, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 721-722

  Shirai, Toshihiro ^a   Ikeda, Masaki ^a   Morita, Satoru ^a   Asada, Kazuhiro ^a   Suda, Takafumi ^b   Chida, Kingo ^b  

^a SHIZUOKA GENERAL HOSPITAL   (Japan)

^b HAMAMATSU UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

Author keywords

Alveolar nitric oxide; Environmental challenge; Home induced; Hypersensitivity pneumonitis; Surfactant protein D

Indexed keywords

NITRIC OXIDE;

ADULT; ALLERGIC PNEUMONITIS; ARTERIAL GAS; ARTICLE; BLOOD GAS ANALYSIS; CASE REPORT; CELL INFILTRATION; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HUMAN; LUNG ALVEOLITIS; LUNG FUNCTION; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; ALVEOLITIS, EXTRINSIC ALLERGIC; CHEMISTRY; LUNG ALVEOLUS; MIDDLE AGED; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; RADIOGRAPHY;

ALVEOLITIS, EXTRINSIC ALLERGIC; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NITRIC OXIDE; PULMONARY ALVEOLI;

EID: 77951739833     PISSN: 13237799     EISSN: 14401843     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1440-1843.2010.01726.x     Document Type: Article

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