Horse rug lung: toxic pneumonitis due to fluorocarbon inhalation

Horse rug lung: toxic pneumonitis due to fluorocarbon inhalation.

Fluorocarbons are widely used in industry, and manifestations of inhalation toxicity include polymer fume fever, reactive airways dysfunction, and bronchospasm. Only seven cases of alveolitis occurring acutely after inhalation have been reported. This paper presents four cases of toxic pneumonitis due to direct inhalation of industrial fluorocarbon used as a waterproofing spray for horse rugs. ...

Recall lung pneumonitis due to carmustine after radiotherapy.

A patient who developed pneumonitis immediately after the administration of carmustine (BCNU), within exactly the same field as previous irradiation, is presented. The patient responded partially to corticosteroids. This case suggests that irradiation causes subclinical sensitisation of the lung and can therefore have an additive effect in precipitating lung damage when another pulmonary toxin ...

Chacinero's lung - hypersensitivity pneumonitis due to dry sausage dust.

OBJECTIVE Hypersensitivity pneumonitis (HP) comprises a large group of diseases that occur secondary to inhalation of a variety of antigens. This report describes a little-known cause of HP, previously unreported in the English literature. METHODS Five patients (three women) with a mean age of 41 years who fulfilled the criteria for HP due to exposure to dry sausage dust were studied. The cli...

Non-fatal lung disease due to inhalation of nebulised paraquat.

Hypersensitivity pneumonitis due to the occupational inhalation on fungi-contaminated maize

Hypersensitivity pneumonitis or extrinsic allergic alveolitis can be defined as a lung disease caused by a wide group of antigens that reach the lung by inhalation of organic and/or inorganic dust of various sources. The dust of the stored maize corn has been reported as cause of respiratory symptoms. During the storage process, maize corn dust can be contaminated by moulds and thermophilic act...