| Literature DB >> 7872245 |
A Kawasaki1, Y Mizushima, H Kunitani, M Kitagawa, M Kobayashi.
Abstract
A 51 year-old male was admitted to our hospital with chief complaints of fever, dry cough and dyspnea. Chest X-ray films and his history of taking Chinese medicine for liver dysfunction were suggestive of drug-induced pneumonitis. Lymphocyte stimulation test (LST) to causative Chinese medical drugs of Sho-saiko-to and Dai-saiko-to was negative with peripheral blood lymphocytes (PBL), but was positive with lymphocytes from bronchoalveolar lavage fluid (BALF). In vivo challenge test for Sho-saiko-to was positive. The LST with BALF-lymphocytes proved to be very useful in making a diagnosis of drug-induced pneumonitis.Entities:
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Year: 1994 PMID： 7872245 DOI： 10.1142/S0192415X94000395
Source DB: PubMed Journal: Am J Chin Med ISSN： 0192-415X Impact factor: 4.667