Bronchoalveolar lavage in acute drug-hypersensitivity pneumonitis probably caused by phenytoin.
We have reported a case of acute hypersensitivity pneumonitis, probably caused by phenytoin, in which the results of bronchoalveolar lavage suggested a predominantly lymphocytic type of alveolitis, comparable to the alveolitis of sarcoidosis or chronic hypersensitivity pneumonitis.
D000208:Acute Disease; D000542:Alveolitis, Extrinsic Allergic / Q000139:chemically induced* / Q000473:pathology; D001706:Biopsy; D001980:Bronchi / Q000473:pathology*; D001999:Bronchoscopy; D004342:Drug Hypersensitivity / Q000473:pathology*; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008875:Middle Aged; D010672:Phenytoin / Q000009:adverse effects*; D011650:Pulmonary Alveoli / Q000473:pathology*; D007507:Therapeutic Irrigation
D010672:Phenytoin