Localised alveolar-septal amyloidosis with hypersensitivity pneumonitis.
Localised alveolar-septal amyloidosis has been thought irreversible. A woman exposed to the dust of sea-snail shells during the manufacture of nacre buttons had clinical and immunological features typical of hypersensitivity pneumonitis; however, transbronchial lung biopsy showed alveolar-septal amyloidosis. There was no evidence of other diseases known to be associated with amyloidosis, nor were amyloid deposits found in other organs. After a year without exposure to the antigen there was no trace of either pneumonitis or amyloidosis.
Servei de Pneumologia, Hospital General Universitari Vall d'Hebron, Barcelona, Spain.
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Orriols
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Aliaga
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Rodrigo
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Garcia
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Royo
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Morell
D000328:Adult; D000542:Alveolitis, Extrinsic Allergic / Q000150:complications* / Q000473:pathology; D000686:Amyloidosis / Q000150:complications* / Q000473:pathology; D000818:Animals; D004797:Enzyme-Linked Immunosorbent Assay; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007074:Immunoglobulin G / Q000302:isolation & purification; D008974:Mollusca / Q000276:immunology; D011650:Pulmonary Alveoli / Q000473:pathology; D012075:Remission, Spontaneous
D007074:Immunoglobulin G