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Hypersensitivity pneumonitis: Need for a better diagnostic evaluation
Claudia Ravaglia
Department of Thoracic Diseases, GB Morgagni Hospital, Forlì, Italy
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Polastri, V. Comellini, L. Pisani" "autores" => array:3 [ 0 => array:2 [ "nombre" => "M." "apellidos" => "Polastri" ] 1 => array:2 [ "nombre" => "V." "apellidos" => "Comellini" ] 2 => array:2 [ "nombre" => "L." 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When a specific exposure cannot be clearly identified, differentiation of chronic HP can become more challenging; on the other hand, specific IgG signal merely reflects antigen exposure and a multidisciplinary diagnosis of chronic HP may not be associated with an improved outcome over patients diagnosed with IPF, as if they were the same disease.</p><p id="par0020" class="elsevierStylePara elsevierViewall">Furthermore, in chronic HP sub-group, patients had most frequently ground glass, reticulation and honey combing patterns, while no differences were found regarding mosaic pattern and emphysema. It is worth pointing out this result as we know from the literature that computed tomography (CT) predictors of mortality in chronic HP includes reticular pattern, honeycombing and traction bronchiectasis; whereas mosaic attenuation (although the headcheese sign may be highly specific and moderately sensitive for a high-confidence diagnosis of fibrotic HP) is usually not predictive of outcome.<a class="elsevierStyleCrossRef" href="#bib0010"><span class="elsevierStyleSup">2</span></a> Chronic HP patients with more extensive fibrosis may progress to death with an IPF-like disease course.<a class="elsevierStyleCrossRefs" href="#bib0010"><span class="elsevierStyleSup">2,3</span></a></p><p id="par0025" class="elsevierStylePara elsevierViewall">Finally, in an era in which the multidisciplinary team diagnosis is the accepted diagnostic standard, the number of patients with diffuse parenchymal lung diseases (DPLDs) undergoing lung biopsy is inevitably reduced as invasive complementary diagnostic tests are reserved only for cases in which the multidisciplinary evaluation is not enough to conclude a definitive diagnosis. In Santos’s series, 29,2% of patients needed to perform histological analysis and a significant number of patients undergoing lung biopsy had chronic HP (for which differential diagnosis is considerably more challenging).<a class="elsevierStyleCrossRef" href="#bib0005"><span class="elsevierStyleSup">1</span></a> More than a third of lung biopsies were obtained by transbronchial lung cryobiopsy (TBLC); although additional research is needed to enhance knowledge regarding the role of TBLC in the diagnostic algorithm of chronic HP,<a class="elsevierStyleCrossRef" href="#bib0020"><span class="elsevierStyleSup">4</span></a> the recent Chest guidelines have further confirmed that TBLC contribution to the diagnosis of DPLDs obtained via multidisciplinary discussion appears to be good at least in experienced centers.<a class="elsevierStyleCrossRef" href="#bib0025"><span class="elsevierStyleSup">5</span></a></p><p id="par0030" class="elsevierStylePara elsevierViewall">In conclusion, Santos et al.<a class="elsevierStyleCrossRef" href="#bib0005"><span class="elsevierStyleSup">1</span></a> confirms the need for a more precise and complex diagnostic evaluation for hypersensitivity pneumonitis, especially the chronic fibrotic form, due to the differential diagnosis between this form and other fibrotic interstitial pneumonias with poor prognosis.</p></span>" "pdfFichero" => "main.pdf" "tienePdf" => true "fechaRecibido" => "2020-01-01" "bibliografia" => array:2 [ "titulo" => "References" "seccion" => array:1 [ 0 => array:2 [ "identificador" => "bibs0005" "bibliografiaReferencia" => array:5 [ 0 => array:3 [ "identificador" => "bib0005" "etiqueta" => "1" "referencia" => array:1 [ 0 => array:1 [ "referenciaCompleta" => "V. 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