title: Feather wreath lung: chasing a dead bird.
abstract: We report the case of a 50 year old clerk with chronic extrinsic allergic alveolitis due to a wreath of feathers from his dead budgerigar hanging in his living-room. Diagnosis was confirmed by serum precipitins, bronchoalveolar lavage and open lung biopsy. It is important to recognize unusual sources of exposure in this disease.
authors.affiliation: Dept Pneumology/Allergology, University of Essen, Germany.
authors.forename: F J
authors.initials: FJ
authors.lastname: Meyer
authors.forename: P C
authors.initials: PC
authors.lastname: Bauer
authors.forename: U
authors.initials: U
authors.lastname: Costabel
mesh_terms: D000542:Alveolitis, Extrinsic Allergic / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000209:etiology* / Q000503:physiopathology; D000818:Animals; D001706:Biopsy; D001717:Birds; D001992:Bronchoalveolar Lavage Fluid / Q000166:cytology; D003937:Diagnosis, Differential; D005241:Feathers; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged