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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.

    https://doi.org/10.1136/thx.45.9.713

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