extrinsic allergic alveolitis

• recurrent episodes of fever, chills, dry cough, dyspnea following exposure after 6 hr interval (10-40% assymptomatic)
• resolution may occur in days or weeks after exposure ceases
• chronic form may lead to honeycombing

• farmer's lung
• Pandora's pneumonitis
• bird-fancier's lung
• mushroom worker's lung
• bagassosis
• malt worker's lung
• maple bark disease
• suberosis
• sequoiosis

see:

• acute extrinsic allergic alveolitis
• hypersensitivity pneumonitis

© 2002, C.E. Kahn, Jr.
2002-04-18