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Case Report

A case of hypersensitivity pneumonitis and asthma attack caused by isocyanates

Tamami Sakai  Nobuyuki Katayama  Yuko Waseda  Noriyuki Okura  Masaki Fujimura 

Respiratory Medicine, Kanazawa University Hospital

ABSTRACT

We report a case of hypersensitivity pneumonitis and asthma attack caused by isocyanates in a 61-year-old man. The patient was admitted for diagnosis and treatment of workday fever, cough, wheezing, and dyspnea. He worked in a furniture manufactureing factory and used polyurethane adhesive containing isocyanates. His chest CT showed diffuse centrilobular shadows. Findings of bronchioalveolar lavage fluid were compatible with hypersensitivity pneumonitis, and specific IgE was positive for toluene diisocyanate, 4,4’-methylenediphenyl diisocyanate, and 1,6’-hexamethylene diisocyanate. The diagnosis of asthma was established by positive bronchial reversibility and bronchial hyperresponsiveness. Furthermore, an elevation of the fraction of exhaled nitric oxide (FeNO) level also supported the diagnosis of bronchial asthma. The workplace environmental challenge induced cough, shortness of breath, chest tightness, increases in body temperature, WBC, and CRP and decreases in peak expiratory flow rate and SpO2. We interpreted these results as positive for both hypersensitivity pneumonitis and asthma. Of interest is that the environmental provocation test decreased the level of FeNO.

KEYWORDS

Hypersensitivity pneumonitis  Bronchial asthma  Isocyanate  Environmental challenge  Fraction of exhaled nitric oxide (FeNO) 

Received 18 Mar 2011 / Accepted 20 Oct 2011

AJRS, 1(2): 114-118, 2012

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