Bird fanciers’ lung induced by exposure to duck and goose feathers
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Bird fanciers’ lung induced by exposure to duck and goose feathers
PATIENT Female, 60 FINAL DIAGNOSIS: Bird fanciers' lung Symptoms: Cough productive • hypoxia • short of breath • substernal chest pain MEDICATION - Clinical Procedure: - Specialty: - OBJECTIVE Rare disease. BACKGROUND Hypersensitivity pneumonitis (HP) is a group of inflammatory interstitial lung diseases caused by hypersensitivity reactions from repeated insults of inhalation of fine part...
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عنوان ژورنال: American Journal of Case Reports
سال: 2014
ISSN: 1941-5923
DOI: 10.12659/ajcr.890184