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Thorax 1990;45:713-714 doi:10.1136/thx.45.9.713
  • Research Article

Bronchoalveolar lavage findings in a patient with the organic dust toxic syndrome.

  1. E Raymenants,
  2. M Demedts,
  3. B Nemery
  1. Division of Pneumonology, University Hospital Pellenberg, Leuven, Belgium.

      Abstract

      A previously healthy student developed the organic dust toxic syndrome after unloading a grain silo for one day. Bronchoalveolar lavage seven days later showed a total cell count six times normal with 70% lymphocytes. This suggests that the previously described acute neutrophil influx into the alveolar spaces in this syndrome is rapidly replaced by a lymphocyte dominated infiltration.

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