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  • Title: [Bird breeder's lung with conversion to fatal fibrosing alveolitis].
    Author: Vergesslich KA, Götz M, Kraft D.
    Journal: Dtsch Med Wochenschr; 1983 Aug 19; 108(33):1238-42. PubMed ID: 6409576.
    Abstract:
    An 11-year-old girl developed typical symptoms of bird breeder's lung after several years of contact with budgerigars and other birds. The clinical diagnosis was confirmed by immunological and lung-function tests. Despite exclusion of exposure to allergens and treatment with steroids and D-penicillamine no improvement occurred, the exogenous allergic alveolitis progressing to fibrosing alveolitis of which the girl died.
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