[FAMILIAL OCCURRENCE OF SUMMER-TYPE HYPERSENSITIVITY PNEUMONITIS IN DEFECTIVE HOME]. 2018

Kohei Watanabe, and Ryota Ohtoshi, and Toshihiro Hayashi, and Yuri Taniguchi, and Yusuke Ohnari, and Tadashi Takao
Itabashi Chuo Medical Center.

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 ground-grass attenuation, and computed tomography showed diffuse nodular lesions bilaterally. She reported that the floorboard in the living room had been rotten last two months, and her husband was admitted to another hospital with similar symptoms the day before. We suspected that she and her husband have familial hypersensitivity pneumonitis although their children who live in the same house don't have any symptoms. After the admission, her respiratory status improved without treatment. The trans-bronchial lung biopsy specimens showed lymphocytic infiltration in alveolar area, and epithelioid cell granuloma consisted of CD68-positive macrophages. These findings corresponded to subacute hypersensitivity pneumonitis. The bronchoalveolar lavage revealed predominant lymphocytes of 92%, with a low CD4/8 ratio of 0.39. Serum anti-Trichosporon asahii antibodies were positive. With the result of positive environmental challenge test in her house, which showed elicited dyspnea and temperature increase up to 38℃ a few hours after she came back home, the patient was diagnosed as having summer-type hypersensitivity pneumonitis. Her husband was also diagnosed as the same disease, and symptoms improved with antigen avoidance and prednisolone. The patient was discharged to her relative's place for the moment of house repair. The patient's symptoms did not recur after her house was repaired.

UI MeSH Term Description Entries
D008875 Middle Aged An adult aged 45 - 64 years. Middle Age
D005260 Female Females
D006801 Humans Members of the species Homo sapiens. Homo sapiens,Man (Taxonomy),Human,Man, Modern,Modern Man
D000542 Alveolitis, Extrinsic Allergic A common interstitial lung disease caused by hypersensitivity reactions of PULMONARY ALVEOLI after inhalation of and sensitization to environmental antigens of microbial, animal, or chemical sources. The disease is characterized by lymphocytic alveolitis and granulomatous pneumonitis. Allergic Alveolitis, Extrinsic,Hypersensitivity Pneumonitis,Pneumonitis, Hypersensitivity,Allergic Alveolitides, Extrinsic,Alveolitides, Extrinsic Allergic,Extrinsic Allergic Alveolitides,Extrinsic Allergic Alveolitis,Hypersensitivity Pneumonitides,Pneumonitides, Hypersensitivity
D012621 Seasons Divisions of the year according to some regularly recurrent phenomena usually astronomical or climatic. (From McGraw-Hill Dictionary of Scientific and Technical Terms, 6th ed) Seasonal Variation,Season,Seasonal Variations,Variation, Seasonal,Variations, Seasonal
D013696 Temperature The property of objects that determines the direction of heat flow when they are placed in direct thermal contact. The temperature is the energy of microscopic motions (vibrational and translational) of the particles of atoms. Temperatures
D014057 Tomography, X-Ray Computed Tomography using x-ray transmission and a computer algorithm to reconstruct the image. CAT Scan, X-Ray,CT Scan, X-Ray,Cine-CT,Computerized Tomography, X-Ray,Electron Beam Computed Tomography,Tomodensitometry,Tomography, Transmission Computed,X-Ray Tomography, Computed,CAT Scan, X Ray,CT X Ray,Computed Tomography, X-Ray,Computed X Ray Tomography,Computerized Tomography, X Ray,Electron Beam Tomography,Tomography, X Ray Computed,Tomography, X-Ray Computer Assisted,Tomography, X-Ray Computerized,Tomography, X-Ray Computerized Axial,Tomography, Xray Computed,X Ray Computerized Tomography,X Ray Tomography, Computed,X-Ray Computer Assisted Tomography,X-Ray Computerized Axial Tomography,Beam Tomography, Electron,CAT Scans, X-Ray,CT Scan, X Ray,CT Scans, X-Ray,CT X Rays,Cine CT,Computed Tomography, Transmission,Computed Tomography, X Ray,Computed Tomography, Xray,Computed X-Ray Tomography,Scan, X-Ray CAT,Scan, X-Ray CT,Scans, X-Ray CAT,Scans, X-Ray CT,Tomographies, Computed X-Ray,Tomography, Computed X-Ray,Tomography, Electron Beam,Tomography, X Ray Computer Assisted,Tomography, X Ray Computerized,Tomography, X Ray Computerized Axial,Transmission Computed Tomography,X Ray Computer Assisted Tomography,X Ray Computerized Axial Tomography,X Ray, CT,X Rays, CT,X-Ray CAT Scan,X-Ray CAT Scans,X-Ray CT Scan,X-Ray CT Scans,X-Ray Computed Tomography,X-Ray Computerized Tomography,Xray Computed Tomography
D014250 Trichosporon A mitosporic fungal genus causing opportunistic infections, endocarditis, fungemia, a hypersensitivity pneumonitis (see TRICHOSPORONOSIS) and white PIEDRA. Trichosporons
D060586 Trichosporonosis Fungal infections caused by TRICHOSPORON that may become systemic especially in an IMMUNOCOMPROMISED HOST. Clinical manifestations range from superficial cutaneous infections to systemic lesions in multiple organs. Trichosporon Infection,Disseminated Trichosporonosis,Invasive Trichosporonosis,Japanese Summer-Type Hypersensitivity Pneumonitis,Summer-Type Hypersensitivity Pneumonitis,Disseminated Trichosporonoses,Infection, Trichosporon,Invasive Trichosporonoses,Japanese Summer Type Hypersensitivity Pneumonitis,Pneumonitides, Summer-Type Hypersensitivity,Pneumonitis, Summer-Type Hypersensitivity,Summer Type Hypersensitivity Pneumonitis,Summer-Type Hypersensitivity Pneumonitides,Trichosporon Infections,Trichosporonoses,Trichosporonosis, Disseminated,Trichosporonosis, Invasive

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