Hypersensitivity Pneumonitis: Challenges in Diagnosis and Management, Avoiding Surgical Lung Biopsy

Seminars in Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine

Volumn 37, Issue 3, 2016, Pages 395-405

  Morell, Ferran ^a,b   Villar, Ana ^b,c   Ojanguren, Iñigo ^b,c   Muñoz, Xavier ^b,c   Cruz, María Jesús ^b,c  

^a HOSPITAL UNIVERSITARI VALL D HEBRON   (Spain)

^b INSTITUTO DE SALUD CARLOS III   (Spain)

^c HOSPITAL UNIVERSITARI VALL D HEBRON   (Spain)

Author keywords

bronchial challenge test; bronchoalveolar lavage; cryobiopsy; hypersensitivity pneumonitis; precipitins; skin test; specific inhalation challenge

Indexed keywords

IMMUNOGLOBULIN G ANTIBODY; IMMUNOGLOBULIN G;

ALLERGIC PNEUMONITIS; ANTIBODY BLOOD LEVEL; ARTICLE; BRONCHOSCOPY; EOSINOPHIL; HUMAN; LUNG ALVEOLUS MACROPHAGE; LUNG AUSCULTATION; LUNG BIOPSY; LUNG LAVAGE; LYMPHOCYTE; LYMPHOCYTE ACTIVATION; NEUTROPHIL; PERIPHERAL BLOOD MONONUCLEAR CELL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SKIN TEST; ANAMNESIS; AUSCULTATION; BIOPSY; IMMUNOLOGY; INHALATION TEST; LUNG; PATHOLOGY; PROCEDURES;

ALVEOLITIS, EXTRINSIC ALLERGIC; AUSCULTATION; BIOPSY; BRONCHIAL PROVOCATION TESTS; BRONCHOALVEOLAR LAVAGE; HUMANS; IMMUNOGLOBULIN G; LUNG; MEDICAL HISTORY TAKING;

EID: 84971275439     PISSN: 10693424     EISSN: 10989048     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1055/s-0036-1580692     Document Type: Article

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