[A case of bird fanciers' lung with endobronchial polyps].
A 34-year-old woman who had been keeping five budgerigars in her home was admitted with cough and progressive exertional dyspnea that had continued for three months. Chest CT scan demonstrated diffuse centrilobular nodular opacities throughout both lung fields. Flexible bronchoscopy revealed polypoid lesions with diameters of 2-3 mm located at the right B1/B2 spur. B3a/B3b spur and middle/lower bronchus spur. Their surfaces were glossy and smooth but slightly lobulated. The histological findings were consistent with inflammatory polyps containing lymphoid follicles in a dense infiltrate of lymphocytes. A positive environmental provocation test and precipitating antibodies confirmed the diagnosis of hypersensitivity pneumonitis (HP) caused by budgerigars (bird fanciers' lung). To our knowledge, there is no previous report of HP accompanied with endobronchial polyps, but this rare case shows the involvement of large airways in HP.
Third Department of Internal Medicine, National Defense Medical College, 3-2 Namiki, Tokorozawa, Saitama, 359-8513, Japan.
Yukihiro
Y
Sugimoto
Hideo
H
Kobayashi
Soichiro
S
Kanoh
Kazuo
K
Motoyoshi
Shinsuke
S
Aida
D000328:Adult; D000818:Animals; D001716:Bird Fancier's Lung / Q000150:complications* / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000473:pathology; D001984:Bronchial Neoplasms / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000209:etiology* / Q000473:pathology; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D010311:Parrots; D011127:Polyps / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000209:etiology* / Q000473:pathology; D011859:Radiography