Alveolitis

Alveolitis- extrinsic allergic
Overview
A lung disease that tends to occur in people with jobs where they are frequently exposed to organic dust inhalation.

Alveolitis, Extrinsic Allergic
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Synonyms ...

Alveolitis, fibrosing
progressive lung disorder characterized by a pattern of Inflammation: \r\n Pathological reaction of an organ or tissue, characterised by heath\/warmth (Latin: calor), redness (Latin: rubor) and pain (Latin: dolor).

Hypersensitivity pneumonitis or extrinsic allergic alveolitis is a widespread disease of the lungs, involving inflammation in both the small airways of the lung and the alveoli (air sacs).

Alternate Names : Diffuse parenchymal lung disease, Alveolitis, Cryptogenic fibrosing alveolitis (CFA), Idiopathic pulmonary pneumonitis (IPP)
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alveolitis
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alveolus ...

alveolitis - inflammation that involves the alveoli (air sacs)
vasculitis - inflammation that involves the small blood vessels (capillaries) ...

ALLERGIC ALVEOLITIS
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AllRefer Health - Hypersensitivity Pneumonitis (Bird Breeder's Lung, Extrinsic Allergic Alveolitis, Farmer's Lung, Humidifier or Air-Conditioner Lung, Mushroom Picker's Disease) ...

Allergic Alveolitis, Extrinsic; "Ventilation" Pneumonitis
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Allergic Alveolitis, Extrinsic; Allergic Alveolitis and Pneumonitis, Other Specified ...

Fibrosing alveolitis
Pulmonary fibrosis - Other / type not known
Pulmonary infiltration - Other / type not known ...

Chest CT (showing alveolitis)
Sometimes bronchoscopy washings (showing lymphocytosis or granulocytosis)
Primary vascular source ...

Extrinsic allergic alveolitis; Farmer's lung; Mushroom picker's disease; Humidifier or air-conditioner lung; Bird breeder's lung
Causes ...

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Alves Castelo dos Santos syndrome ... muscle wasting
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Diffuse Fibrosing Alveolitis
Diffuse Hepatocellular Inflammatory Disease
Diffuse Idiopathic Skeletal Hyperostosis
DiGeorge Syndrome
Digital Rectal Examination (DRE) - Medical Test
Digital-Oro-Cranio Syndrome ...

Fibrosing Alveolitis see Lung diseases
Fibular Hemimelia see Hemimelia
First Arch syndrome see Treacher Collins syndrome
Floating-Harbor syndrome
Focal and Segmental Glomeruloschlerosis see Glomerulonephritis
Focal Dermal Hypoplasia ...

Fibrosing Alveolitis
Fibrosing Cholangitis
Fibrosing Mediastinitis
Fibrositis
Fibrous Interstitial Pneumonia
Fibrous Plaques of the Penis
Fibrous Sclerosis of the Penis
Fiedler Disease
Field Fever
Fiery Serpent Infection ...

Cryptogenic fibrosing alveolitis
Cryptogenic fibrosing alveolitis (CFA)
Cryptogenic polycythemia
Cryptorchidism
Cryptosporidiosis
Cryptosporidium enteritis
CSD
CSF leak
Culture-negative endocarditis
Curvature of the penis ...

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Idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis used to be called cryptogenic fibrosing alveolitis. The exact cause is not known (hence the term idiopathic).

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diseases of the lung: cryptogenic fibrosing alveolitis, cryptogenic organizing pneumonia
diseases of the liver: cryptogenic cirrhosis, cryptogenic hepatitis
diseases of the brain: cryptogenic stroke, cryptogenic epilepsy
[edit] See also ...

Diffuse parenchymal lung disease; Alveolitis; Cryptogenic fibrosing alveolitis (CFA); Idiopathic pulmonary pneumonitis (IPP)
Causes, incidence, and risk factors ...

Meaning: Alcoholics Anonymous; Allergic Alveolitis; Alopecia Areata; Alveolo-arterial; Aminoacetone; Amino Acid; Aminoacyl; Amyloid A
Other abbreviations from this category
Abbreviations ...

bronchiolitis - inflammation that involves the bronchioles (small airways)
alveolitis - inflammation that involves the alveoli (air sacs)
vasculitis - inflammation that involves the small blood vessels (capillaries) ...

Clinical manifestations include hypersensitivity pneumonitis (alveolitis, extrinsic allergic), allergic rhinitis (rhinitis, allergic, perennial), asthma, infections, skin eruptions, and mucous membrane irritation syndromes.

sarcoidosis or fibrosing alveolitis.
disorders of the chest wall such as scoliosis (curvature of the spine) which restricts the size and expansion of the lung.
obesity which similarly leads to small lungs.

In early stages reversible hyperplasia and metaplasia of the bronchial epithelium are seen; later, subacute alveolitis and then chronic interstitial fibrosis develop. Called also tungsten carbide d. and cobalt lung. [Dorland] ...

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Synonyms (other names) for various types of pulmonary fibrosis that have been used in the past include chronic interstitial pneumonitis, Hamman-Rich syndrome, and diffuse fibrosing alveolitis.

This is exemplified in Farmer's lung and Pigeon fancier's lung, where there are circulating antibodies to the actinomycete fungi found in mouldy hay, or to pigeon antigens. Both diseases are forms of extrinsic allergic alveolitis and they only occur ...

symptoms of weakness and muscle stiffness or spasms, in rare cases individuals with HAM/TSP also exhibit uveitis (inflammation of the uveal tract of the eye), arthritis (inflammation of one or more joints), pulmonary lymphocytic alveolitis ...

See also: Symptom, Fever, Pneumonia, Cancer, Asthma