Feather wreath lung: chasing a dead bird.
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.
Meyer
F J
FJ
Dept Pneumology/Allergology, University of Essen, Germany.
Bauer
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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