[Angiotensin converting enzyme (ACE) in the follow-up control of children and adolescents with allergic alveolitis].
We studied the concentration of angiotensin-converting enzyme (ACE) in 80 respiratory and hepatologic healthy patients aged 4 months to 35 years. The normal values ranged from 9.4-38.8 U/ml with a tendency of lower ACE-concentrations in the older patients. In the follow up of 16 patients with hypersensitivity pneumonitis a decrease of initially elevated values of ACE was observed in 12 cases. In two patients with a recurrent course of hypersensitivity pneumonitis ACE rose to levels above 30 U/ml. These findings suggest that ACE-concentration in serum is an additional parameter to evaluate the acute stage of disease in patients with hypersensitivity pneumonitis.
Hüls
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Funktionsbereich Pädiatrische Pneumologie und Allergologie, Justus-Liebig-Universität Giessen.
Lindemann
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Velcovsky
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D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D000542:Alveolitis, Extrinsic Allergic / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000201:enzymology*; D002648:Child; D002675:Child, Preschool; D005260:Female; D005500:Follow-Up Studies; D006801:Humans; D007223:Infant; D008297:Male; D007703:Peptidyl-Dipeptidase A / Q000097:blood*
D007703:Peptidyl-Dipeptidase A
Angiotensinkonvertierendes Enzym (ACE) zur Verlaufskontrolle bei Kindern und Jugendlichen mit allergischer Alveolitis.