Clinical variants of the course and the characteristics of the x-ray changes in extrinsic allergic alveolitis--tobacco growers' disease

Analysis is made of the clinical varieties and x-ray changes in the lungs in 143 persons engaged in tobacco growing. The immunological studies revealed sensitization to tobacco antigen in all the patients. Pointing to the polymorphism of the x-ray appearance the authors group at the same time the ma...

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Published inTerapevtic̆eskii arhiv Vol. 62; no. 3; p. 117
Main Authors Khomenko, A G, ZHalolov, Z, Dmitrieva, L I
Format Journal Article
LanguageRussian
Published Russia (Federation) 1990
Subjects
Adult
Agricultural Workers' Diseases - diagnostic imaging
Alveolitis, Extrinsic Allergic - diagnostic imaging
Antibodies - analysis
Chronic Disease
Female
Humans
Lung - diagnostic imaging
Male
Nicotiana - immunology
Plants, Toxic
Precipitin Tests
Radiography
Uzbekistan
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Summary:Analysis is made of the clinical varieties and x-ray changes in the lungs in 143 persons engaged in tobacco growing. The immunological studies revealed sensitization to tobacco antigen in all the patients. Pointing to the polymorphism of the x-ray appearance the authors group at the same time the main signs into the x-ray symptom complexes: emphysematous interstitial, parenchymatous interstitial and pneumonic. Preliminary analysis indicates that the x-ray symptom complexes thus distinguished correlate with the main clinical varieties of the disease which may run its course by the type of obstructive bronchitis, bronchial asthma and recurrent pneumonias.
ISSN:0040-3660