Allergic bronchopulmonary aspergillosis

Introduction: Allergic bronchopulmonary aspergillosis

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Allergic bronchopulmonary aspergillosis: An allergic reaction to a particular fungus called Aspergillus. More detailed information about the symptoms, causes, and treatments of Allergic bronchopulmonary aspergillosis is available below.

Symptoms of Allergic bronchopulmonary aspergillosis

• Wheezing
• Low-grade fever
• Coughing
• Coughing up brown-flecked masses or mucus plugs
• Asthma symptoms

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Diagnostic Tests for Allergic bronchopulmonary aspergillosis

• Fungi skin testing, blood tests, X-rays, Fungi sputum tests

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Wrongly Diagnosed with Allergic bronchopulmonary aspergillosis?

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Misdiagnosis and Allergic bronchopulmonary aspergillosis

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Causes of Allergic bronchopulmonary aspergillosis

• Asthma

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Treatments for Allergic bronchopulmonary aspergillosis

• Corticosteroids

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Clinical Trials for Allergic bronchopulmonary aspergillosis

The US based website ClinicalTrials.gov lists information on both federally and privately supported clinical trials using human volunteers.

Some of the clinical trials listed on ClinicalTrials.gov for Allergic bronchopulmonary aspergillosis include:

• Voriconazole and Bronchopulmonary Aspergillosis - This study is currently recruiting patients (Current: 23 Nov 2006) - Voriconazole

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Article Excerpts about Allergic bronchopulmonary aspergillosis

In some individuals, exposure to these fungi also can lead to asthma or to a lung disease resembling severe inflammatory asthma called allergic bronchopulmonary aspergillosis. This latter condition, which occurs only in a minority of people with asthma, is characterized by wheezing, low-grade fever, and coughing up of brown-flecked masses or mucus plugs. Skin testing, blood tests, X-rays, and examination of the sputum for fungi can help establish the diagnosis. Corticosteroid drugs are usually effective in treating this reaction; immunotherapy (allergy shots) is not helpful. (Source: excerpt from Something in the Air Airborne Allergens: NIAID)

Definitions of Allergic bronchopulmonary aspergillosis:

Aspergillosis of the lung occurring in an individual with long-standing bronchial asthma. It is characterized by pulmonary infiltrates, eosinophilia, elevated serum IgE and immediate type skin reactivity to aspergillus antigen. - (Source - Diseases Database)

Allergic bronchopulmonary aspergillosis is listed as a "rare disease" by the Office of Rare Diseases (ORD) of the National Institutes of Health (NIH). This means that Allergic bronchopulmonary aspergillosis, or a subtype of Allergic bronchopulmonary aspergillosis, affects less than 200,000 people in the US population.
Source - National Institutes of Health (NIH)

Ophanet, a consortium of European partners, currently defines a condition rare when it affects 1 person per 2,000. They list Allergic bronchopulmonary aspergillosis as a "rare disease".
Source - Orphanet