Bronchoalveolar lavage findings in a patient with the organic dust toxic syndrome.
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.
Raymenants
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Division of Pneumonology, University Hospital Pellenberg, Leuven, Belgium.
Demedts
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Nemery
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B
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*