[Hypersensitivity pneumonitis induced by Aspergillus niger--a case report].
A 52-year-old woman was hospitalized because of severe cough in August 1994. She had engaged in culturing roses in greenhouses since 1968, and had developed a cough during the summer of 1990. Chest radiography showed diffuse ground-glass opacity in both lung fields, and she suffered from hypoxemia (PaO2 = 45.6 torr) while breathing room air. The lymphocyte count in the bronchoalveolar lavage fluid was increased, and transbronchial lung biopsy specimens showed lymphocyte alveolitis in the alveolar spaces. After admission, the patient's symptoms improved rapidly without medication. However, on her return to work, the cough and hypoxemia reappeared. In her rose culture, she had used Rockwool, and Aspergillus niger was detected predominantly in the Rockwool. Precipitins against the extracts of Aspergillus niger were detected with the double immunodiffusion test and the inhalation provocation test yielded clinical symptoms. Our diagnosis was hypersensitivity pneumonitis caused by Aspergillus niger.
Miyazaki
Hiroo
H
Department of Respiratory Disease, Fukuroi Municipal Hospital, 2515-1 Kuno, Fukuroi, Shizuoka 437-0061, Japan.
Gemma
Hitoshi
H
Uemura
Keiichi
K
Ono
Takahisa
T
Masuda
Masafumi
M
Sano
Takehisa
T
Sato
Masaki
M
Koshimizu
Naoki
N
Suda
Takafumi
T
Chida
Kingo
K
D000382:Agricultural Workers' Diseases / Q000382:microbiology*; D000542:Alveolitis, Extrinsic Allergic / Q000382:microbiology*; D001228:Aspergillosis / Q000209:etiology*; D001234:Aspergillus niger; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008172:Lung Diseases, Fungal / Q000209:etiology*; D008875:Middle Aged