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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.
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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)
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
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