Bronchoalveolar Lavage in Acute Drug-Hypersensitivity Pneumonitis Probably Caused by Phenytoin

1 December 1984

journal article
case report
Published by Southern Medical Association in Southern Medical Journal

Vol. 77 (12) , 1594-1596
https://doi.org/10.1097/00007611-198412000-00032

Abstract

We have reported a case of acute hypersensitivity pneumonitis, probably caused by phenytoin, in which the results of bronchoalveolar lavage suggested a predominantly lymphocytic type of alveolitis, comparable to the alveolitis of sarcoidosis or chronic hypersensitivity pneumonitis.

Keywords

ACUTE DRUG
DRUG HYPERSENSITIVITY
SARCOIDOSIS
LYMPHOCYTIC
PNEUMONITIS
ALVEOLITIS
BRONCHOALVEOLAR
LAVAGE IN ACUTE