[Exogenous allergic alveolitis in workers engaged in the manufacture of pepsin]. / Ekzogennyi allergicheskii al'veolit u rabochikh proizvodstva pepsina.

A case is reported of an affliction in a worker engaged in the production of enzyme powder-like drugs who in the course of his work over 30 years had been exposed to aerosols containing pepsin and hydrochloric acid. The lung X-ray disclosed pneumothorax, with the cardiovascular shadow and trachea displaced to the right. There were signs of myocardial hypoxia and pulmonary hypertension on the electrocardiogram. The described case suggests to us its occupational causation and permits classifying the form of affection of the bronchopulmonary system as an occupational health problem.