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Hypersensitivity Lung Disease and Challenge Testing

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Hypersensitivity pneumonitis (HP) or extrinsic allergic alveolitis (British terminology) is defined as a pulmonary illness caused by an immunologic reaction to a variety of inhaled environmental antigens that involves the periphery of the lung.1 The affected subject acquires an abnormal sensitivity or heightened reactivity to the inciting agent, resulting in an inflammatory host response located primarily in the alveolar-air exchange portion of the lung rather than in the conducting airways seen in asthma. The distinction is important, for certain types of asthma, notably extrinsic, IgE-mediated allergic asthma, is also a form of hypersensitivity lung disease often associated with airborne organic antigens.2

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  1. Donald P. Schlueter MD
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  2. George Mathai MD
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  3. Donna Klein RN, JD
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Editors and Affiliations

  1. Pulmonary Lab, Flushing Medical Center, USA

    James R. Vevaina MD, FACP, FCCP (Acting Chief, Critical Care Medicine and Associate Director, a major teaching affiliate, Consultant) (Acting Chief, Critical Care Medicine and Associate Director, a major teaching affiliate, Consultant)

  2. Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Bronx, NY, USA

    James R. Vevaina MD, FACP, FCCP (Acting Chief, Critical Care Medicine and Associate Director, a major teaching affiliate, Consultant) (Acting Chief, Critical Care Medicine and Associate Director, a major teaching affiliate, Consultant)

  3. Pulmonary division, Long Island Jewish-Hillside Medical Center, New Hyde Park, NY, USA

    James R. Vevaina MD, FACP, FCCP (Acting Chief, Critical Care Medicine and Associate Director, a major teaching affiliate, Consultant) (Acting Chief, Critical Care Medicine and Associate Director, a major teaching affiliate, Consultant)

  4. State of New York and Consolidated Edison Corporation, USA

    James R. Vevaina MD, FACP, FCCP (Acting Chief, Critical Care Medicine and Associate Director, a major teaching affiliate, Consultant) (Acting Chief, Critical Care Medicine and Associate Director, a major teaching affiliate, Consultant)

  5. Flushing Hospital and Medical Center, 4500 Parsons Boulevard, Flushing, NY, 11355, USA

    James R. Vevaina MD, FACP, FCCP (Acting Chief, Critical Care Medicine and Associate Director, a major teaching affiliate, Consultant) (Acting Chief, Critical Care Medicine and Associate Director, a major teaching affiliate, Consultant)

  6. Department of Internal Medicine and Critical Care Medicine, Rush Medical College, Chicago, IL, 60612, USA

    Roger C. Bone MD, FACP, FCCP (The Ralph Crissman Brown Professor and Chairman) (The Ralph Crissman Brown Professor and Chairman)

  7. Appellate Term of the Supreme Court of the State of New York, 2nd and 11th Judicial Districts, USA

    Edwin Kassoff (Presiding Justice, Professor of Law) (Presiding Justice, Professor of Law)

  8. Pace University, USA

    Edwin Kassoff (Presiding Justice, Professor of Law) (Presiding Justice, Professor of Law)

  9. 88-11 Sutphin Boulevard, Jamaica, NY, 11435, USA

    Edwin Kassoff (Presiding Justice, Professor of Law) (Presiding Justice, Professor of Law)

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Schlueter, D.P., Mathai, G., Klein, D. (1989). Hypersensitivity Lung Disease and Challenge Testing. In: Vevaina, J.R., Bone, R.C., Kassoff, E. (eds) Legal Aspects of Medicine. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4612-4534-6_30

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