Clinical variants of the course and the characteristics of the x-ray changes in extrinsic allergic alveolitis--tobacco growers' disease
Khomenko, A.G.; ZHalolov, Z.; Dmitrieva, L.I.
Terapevticheskii Arkhiv 62(3): 117-121
1990
ISSN/ISBN: 0040-3660 PMID: 2142337 Document Number: 357334
Analysis is made of the clinical varieties and x-ray changes in the lungs in 143 persons engaged in tobacco growing. The immunological studies revealed sensitization to tobacco antigen in all the patients. Pointing to the polymorphism of the x-ray appearance the authors group at the same time the main signs into the x-ray symptom complexes: emphysematous interstitial, parenchymatous interstitial and pneumonic. Preliminary analysis indicates that the x-ray symptom complexes thus distinguished correlate with the main clinical varieties of the disease which may run its course by the type of obstructive bronchitis, bronchial asthma and recurrent pneumonias.