Immunopathology, diagnosis, and management of hypersensitivity pneumonitis

Seminars in Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine

Volumn 33, Issue 5, 2012, Pages 543-554

  Selman, Moisés ^a   Buendía Roldán, Ivette ^a  

^a INSTITUTO NACIONAL DE ENFERMEDADES RESPIRATORIAS   (Mexico)

Author keywords

extrinsic allergic alveolitis; hypersensitivity pneumonitis; lung fibrosis

Indexed keywords

AZATHIOPRINE; CARBAMATE PESTICIDE; CYCLOSPORIN; GRANULOCYTE COLONY STIMULATING FACTOR; GRANULOCYTE MACROPHAGE COLONY STIMULATING FACTOR; IMMUNOGLOBULIN G; INTERLEUKIN 17; INTERLEUKIN 1BETA; INTERLEUKIN 21; INTERLEUKIN 6; INTERLEUKIN 8; MAJOR HISTOCOMPATIBILITY ANTIGEN CLASS 1; MAJOR HISTOCOMPATIBILITY ANTIGEN CLASS 2; METHYLPREDNISOLONE; MONOCYTE CHEMOTACTIC PROTEIN 1; ORGANOCHLORINE PESTICIDE; PENTETATE TECHNETIUM TC 99M; PREDNISONE; T LYMPHOCYTE RECEPTOR; THALIDOMIDE; TUMOR NECROSIS FACTOR ALPHA;

ALLERGIC PNEUMONITIS; ANTIBODY RESPONSE; ARTICLE; CELL INFILTRATION; CIGARETTE SMOKING; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CORTICOSTEROID THERAPY; CYTOKINE RELEASE; DISEASE COURSE; DISEASE EXACERBATION; DRUG DOSE REDUCTION; DRUG MEGADOSE; DYSPNEA; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; FIBROSING ALVEOLITIS; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HUMAN TISSUE; IMMUNE RESPONSE; IMMUNOPATHOLOGY; INTERSTITIAL PNEUMONIA; LABORATORY TEST; LUNG FIBROSIS; LUNG FUNCTION TEST; LUNG GRANULOMA; LUNG LAVAGE; LUNG SCINTISCANNING; MONONUCLEAR CELL; PATHOGENESIS; PIGEON BREEDER LUNG; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; TH17 CELL; THORAX RADIOGRAPHY;

ACUTE DISEASE; ALVEOLITIS, EXTRINSIC ALLERGIC; ANIMALS; ANTIGENS; CHRONIC DISEASE; DISEASE PROGRESSION; GLUCOCORTICOIDS; HUMANS; PULMONARY FIBROSIS;

EID: 84866495055     PISSN: 10693424     EISSN: 10989048     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1055/s-0032-1325163     Document Type: Article

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