title: [Humidifier fever: and unusual variant of hypersensitivity pneumonitis].
abstract: A case of a patient suffering three episodes consistent in fever, lung infiltrates, lymphocitosis in bronchoalveolar lavage and non-caseificant granulomata in transbronchial biopsy is reported.A relationship between exposition to the air conditioner in the office and the clinical picture was stablished, and the patient was finally diagnosed from humidifiers fever. We enfatize the manifestations of this uncommon disease, probably infradiagnosed, and the patogenic mechanisms are reviewed.
authors.affiliation: Sección de Neumología, Hospital Universitario San Juan, Alicante. anacamarasa@hotmail.com
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Camarasa Escrig
authors.forename: E
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Chiner Vives
authors.forename: C
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Senent Español
authors.forename: J N
authors.initials: JN
authors.lastname: Sancho Chust
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Llombart Cantó
authors.forename: A L
authors.initials: AL
authors.lastname: Andreu Rodríguez
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D000542:Alveolitis, Extrinsic Allergic / Q000209:etiology*; D005260:Female; D005334:Fever / Q000209:etiology; D006794:Household Articles / Q000295:instrumentation; D006801:Humans; D006813:Humidity