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Familial summer-type hypersensitivity pneumonitis in Japan: two case reports and review of the literature
BACKGROUND: Hypersensitivity pneumonitis is defined as an allergic lung disease that occurs in response to inhalation of fungal antigens, bacterial antigens, chemicals, dusts, or animal proteins. The incidence of summer-type hypersensitivity pneumonitis is higher in the summer season, especially in...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3847446/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24028200 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1756-0500-6-371 |
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author | Nakajima, Akira Saraya, Takeshi Mori, Takeshi Ikeda, Reiko Sugita, Takashi Watanabe, Takayasu Fujiwara, Masachika Takizawa, Hajime Goto, Hajime |
author_facet | Nakajima, Akira Saraya, Takeshi Mori, Takeshi Ikeda, Reiko Sugita, Takashi Watanabe, Takayasu Fujiwara, Masachika Takizawa, Hajime Goto, Hajime |
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description | BACKGROUND: Hypersensitivity pneumonitis is defined as an allergic lung disease that occurs in response to inhalation of fungal antigens, bacterial antigens, chemicals, dusts, or animal proteins. The incidence of summer-type hypersensitivity pneumonitis is higher in the summer season, especially in Japan, due to the influence of the hot and humid environment and the common style of wood house or old concrete condominiums. CASE PRESENTATION: The present report describes a case of a middle-aged married couple who lived in the same house and who simultaneously suffered from summer-type hypersensitivity pneumonitis. This report analyzes these two cases in terms of environmental research and its microbiological, radiological, and pathological aspects. This case report is followed by a review of family occurrences of summer-type hypersensitivity pneumonitis from 22 studies with a total of 49 patients (including the two present cases) in Japan. CONCLUSION: Summer-type hypersensitivity pneumonitis may be unrecognized and misdiagnosed as pneumonia or other respiratory diseases. A greater understanding of the clinical, pathologic, and environmental features of summer-type hypersensitivity pneumonitis might help improve diagnosis and delivery of appropriate management for this condition. |
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spelling | pubmed-38474462013-12-04 Familial summer-type hypersensitivity pneumonitis in Japan: two case reports and review of the literature Nakajima, Akira Saraya, Takeshi Mori, Takeshi Ikeda, Reiko Sugita, Takashi Watanabe, Takayasu Fujiwara, Masachika Takizawa, Hajime Goto, Hajime BMC Res Notes Case Report BACKGROUND: Hypersensitivity pneumonitis is defined as an allergic lung disease that occurs in response to inhalation of fungal antigens, bacterial antigens, chemicals, dusts, or animal proteins. The incidence of summer-type hypersensitivity pneumonitis is higher in the summer season, especially in Japan, due to the influence of the hot and humid environment and the common style of wood house or old concrete condominiums. CASE PRESENTATION: The present report describes a case of a middle-aged married couple who lived in the same house and who simultaneously suffered from summer-type hypersensitivity pneumonitis. This report analyzes these two cases in terms of environmental research and its microbiological, radiological, and pathological aspects. This case report is followed by a review of family occurrences of summer-type hypersensitivity pneumonitis from 22 studies with a total of 49 patients (including the two present cases) in Japan. CONCLUSION: Summer-type hypersensitivity pneumonitis may be unrecognized and misdiagnosed as pneumonia or other respiratory diseases. A greater understanding of the clinical, pathologic, and environmental features of summer-type hypersensitivity pneumonitis might help improve diagnosis and delivery of appropriate management for this condition. BioMed Central 2013-09-13 /pmc/articles/PMC3847446/ /pubmed/24028200 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1756-0500-6-371 Text en Copyright © 2013 Nakajima et al.; licensee BioMed Central Ltd. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0 This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. |
spellingShingle | Case Report Nakajima, Akira Saraya, Takeshi Mori, Takeshi Ikeda, Reiko Sugita, Takashi Watanabe, Takayasu Fujiwara, Masachika Takizawa, Hajime Goto, Hajime Familial summer-type hypersensitivity pneumonitis in Japan: two case reports and review of the literature |
title | Familial summer-type hypersensitivity pneumonitis in Japan: two case reports and review of the literature |
title_full | Familial summer-type hypersensitivity pneumonitis in Japan: two case reports and review of the literature |
title_fullStr | Familial summer-type hypersensitivity pneumonitis in Japan: two case reports and review of the literature |
title_full_unstemmed | Familial summer-type hypersensitivity pneumonitis in Japan: two case reports and review of the literature |
title_short | Familial summer-type hypersensitivity pneumonitis in Japan: two case reports and review of the literature |
title_sort | familial summer-type hypersensitivity pneumonitis in japan: two case reports and review of the literature |
topic | Case Report |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3847446/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24028200 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1756-0500-6-371 |
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