Recent advances in hypersensitivity pneumonitis

• Published in: Chest Vol. 142; no. 1; p. 208
• Main Authors: Lacasse, Yves, Girard, Mélissa, Cormier, Yvon
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: United States 01.07.2012
• Subjects: Adult; Aged; Alveolitis, Extrinsic Allergic - diagnosis; Alveolitis, Extrinsic Allergic - epidemiology; Alveolitis, Extrinsic Allergic - etiology; Diagnosis, Differential; Female; Humans; Lung - immunology; Lung - pathology; Lung - physiopathology; Male; Middle Aged; Prognosis

Hypersensitivity pneumonitis (HP) is a pulmonary disease with symptoms of dyspnea and cough resulting from the inhalation of an allergen to which the subject has been previously sensitized. The diagnosis of HP most often relies on an array of nonspecific clinical symptoms and signs developed in an a...