Pediatric Hypersensitivity Pneumonitis

  • Etiology: Immune mediated inhalational diffuse lung disease involving organic or inorganic antigens less than 5 microns in diameter that are deposited in alveoli and lead to small airway inflammation and fibrosis with the classic antigen being a fungus
  • Imaging:
    — Non-fibrotic type has nodules, ground glass opacity, air trapping
    — Fibrotic type has scarring and end stage lung disease
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Radiology Cases of Hypersensitivity Pneumonitis