ABSTRACT
Primary pulmonary diffuse alveolar amyloidosis is a rare form among the pulmonary amyloidosis. Especially in primary form diffuse alveolar type is much more rare disease. the patient was checked simple chest X-ray for the purpose of routine screening test, he had no respiratory symptoms and signs and he had no complaint of other organ symptoms, while in chest roentgenogram it was found bilateral diffuse interstitial infiltration of the lung, but any other organs which commonly involved in amyloidosis were not involved in laboratory and other specific diagnostic procedures. We report a case of pulmonry diffuse alveolar amyloidosis only localized in lung which was confirmed by transbronchial lung biopsy.
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Humans , Amyloidosis , Biopsy , Lung , Mass Screening , Rare Diseases , ThoraxABSTRACT
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Drug Resistance , Korea , Mycobacterium tuberculosis , MycobacteriumABSTRACT
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Animals , Epithelium , Guinea Pigs , Guinea , Muscle, SmoothABSTRACT
To observed whether the specific IgG antibody test using ELISA was useful in diagnosis of presently ill patients of paragonimiasis, a total of 95 sera were tested. The sera were collected from 21 egg positive cases, 8 from positive reactors of intradermal test, 7 from Clonorchis infected, 9 from other parasitic diseases and 50 from apparently non-infected cases. By the result, the sensitivity of the test was 86% and the specificity was 100%. There were no cross reactions between Paragonimus antigen and other parastic infections. Specific IgG antibody test by micro-ELISA was concluded to be useful for mass screening of the presently ill paragonimiasis in the field.
