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A 40-year-old man who lived in a wooden house built 30 years ago presented with complaints of fever, dry cough and dyspnea. Chest X-ray findings showed interstitial shadows throughout bilateral lung fields. After admission, high-dose administration of 3000 mg of methylprednisolone was performed
Trichosporon asahii (formerly known as Trichosporon beigelii) is an emerging, life-threatening opportunistic pathogen and has been found to be invariably associated with disseminated or deep-seated trichosporonosis, more so among the patients with granulocytopenia or hematological malignancies. We
A unique form of hypersensitivity pneumonitis in which clinical symptoms appear in the summer and subside spontaneously in the mid-autumn was found in Japan. This disease was named summer-type hypersensitivity pneumonitis and was found the most prevalent form in Japan. This disease has the following
A 51-year-old man with chief complaints of cough, fever, and dyspnea was admitted to our hospital. Based on a home provocation test, transbronchial lung biopsy specimens, and a serum antibody, we diagnosed summer-type hypersensitivity pneumonitis. In 1983 when the patient was 46 years old,
We encountered a family in which all of the three members (the parents, a 45-year-old woman and 51-year-old man, and their 15-year-old daughter) had Trichosporon cutaneum antibodies (corrected of antigen), and two (the parents) suffered from summer-type hypersensitivity pneumonitis in the late
We encountered two patients with summer-type hypersensitivity pneumonitis that developed in Nagano Prefecture. Patient 1 was a 61-year-old man who had worked in warm and humid environments as painter. He was referred to our hospital because of fever, coughing and exertional dyspnea. Respiratory
A 74-year-old-man (case 1) was admitted to our hospital because of dry cough, fever, and dyspnea on effort. His daughter-in-law, a 53-year-old-woman (case 2), was also admitted to our hospital on suspicion of hypersensitivity pneumonitis (HP). Their diagnoses of HP were established by radiological,
We encountered a pair of monozygotic twins with summer-type hypersensitivity pneumonitis. Patients 1 and 2 were 24-year-old men who worked in the same place and shared the same room, which was built of wood. In August, patient 1, a non-smoker, was referred to our hospital because of coughing, fever
A 53-year-old-woman presented our hospital with 1 month history of exertional dyspnea and mild fever. When examined, temperature was 37.2℃ and her respiratory rate of 22/min with an O2 saturation of 95% (02 4L/min), the rest of her vital signs were normal. The Chest X-ray was significant for
We encountered a family in which two of four members, the husband and his wife, had summer-type hypersensitivity pneumonitis at the same time, about two months after they moved to the residence. A 45-year-old man had cough, fever and exertional dyspnea. Chest computed tomography showed diffuse
A 77-year-old man was admitted to our hospital. He had first noticed a cough, sputum production, and low-grade fever during the summer of 1988. He was diagnosed as having summer-type hypersensitivity pneumonitis (HP) in 1989 on the basis of positive findings of anti-Trichosporon antibodies in the
A 37-year-old-woman was admitted to our hospital because of chest bilateral reticular shadow with fever, cough, general malaise and exertional dyspnea in the summer. A diagnosis of summer-type hypersensitivity pneumonitis (SHP) was made by radiological, serological and histological examinations. Her
A 55-year-old woman was admitted with a cough and fever in August. A diagnosis of Japanese summer-type hypersensitivity pneumonitis was made on the basis of radiological, serological and pathological findings, in addition to positive returning home provocation. Serum KL-6 was monitored during the
Sixty-six patients, diagnosed as Japanese summer-type hypersensitivity pneumonitis at Osaka Prefectural Habikino hospital between 1973 and 1980, were studied. The diagnosis was based on the clinical features and summer-seasonal nature of the disease. The presence of an aetiological agent within
Summer-type hypersensitivity pneumonitis (HP) is a unique disease in Japan. The clinical features of this disease are as follows: 1) cough, fever and dyspnea as a clinical triad, 2) diffuse reticulonodular opacities on the chest X-ray film, 3) restrictive impairment and decrease in DLco, 4) hypoxia,