title: Bronchoalveolar lavage findings in a patient with the organic dust toxic syndrome.
abstract: A previously healthy student developed the organic dust toxic syndrome after unloading a grain silo for one day. Bronchoalveolar lavage seven days later showed a total cell count six times normal with 70% lymphocytes. This suggests that the previously described acute neutrophil influx into the alveolar spaces in this syndrome is rapidly replaced by a lymphocyte dominated infiltration.
authors.affiliation: Division of Pneumonology, University Hospital Pellenberg, Leuven, Belgium.
authors.forename: E
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Raymenants
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Demedts
authors.forename: B
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Nemery
mesh_terms: D000208:Acute Disease; D000293:Adolescent; D001992:Bronchoalveolar Lavage Fluid / Q000473:pathology*; D006801:Humans; D008218:Lymphocytosis / Q000209:etiology / Q000473:pathology*; D008297:Male; D012832:Silo Filler's Disease / Q000150:complications / Q000473:pathology*