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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
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
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 family in which three of the five members (The parents and a daughter) had summer-type hypersensitivity pneumonitis that occurred in late summer. All three patients had a productive cough and shortness of breath. Chest roentgenograms of the mother and daughter (but not the father)
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
Case 1: A 32-year-old woman had cough and exertional dyspnea in August 2002, and chest computed tomographic scan revealed diffuse centrilobular nodules. Bronchoalveolar lavage fluid (BALF) showed a high proportion of lymphocytes with a decreased CD 4/CD 8 ratio. Transbronchial lung biopsy (TBLB)
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
To evaluate the methods and criteria of judgement for the bronchial antigen inhalation challenge test, the test was performed with culture filtrate antigen of serotype I and II of Trichosporon cutaneum in 18 patients with summer-type hypersensitivity pneumonitis from 15 families. The quantity of 15
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,
OBJECTIVE
To report a fatal case of disseminated trichosporonosis caused by Trichosporon asahii in a patient with acute myeloblastic leukemia (AML) and to present an update on systemic trichosporonosis with special reference to India.
METHODS
The diagnosis was based on repeated demonstration of