TY - JOUR T1 - Bronchoalveolar lavage findings in a patient with the organic dust toxic syndrome. JF - Thorax JO - Thorax SP - 713 LP - 714 DO - 10.1136/thx.45.9.713 VL - 45 IS - 9 AU - E Raymenants AU - M Demedts AU - B Nemery Y1 - 1990/09/01 UR - http://thorax.bmj.com/content/45/9/713.abstract N2 - 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. ER -