Occupational Asthma Reference
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Partridge SJ, Pepperell JCT, Forrester-Wood C, Ibrahim NBN, Raynal A, Swinburn CR,
Pheasant rearer's lung.,
Occup Med (Oxford),
2004;54:500-503,
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Keywords: alveolitis, bird, death, case report
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Abstract
A 47-year-old gamekeeper presented with an 8 month history of variable breathlessness, cough and clinical features of severe interstitial lung disease. Open lung biopsy showed an extrinsic allergic alveolitis, which we believe related to his work rearing pheasants. Initially he was resistant, despite advice, to changing his occupation but subsequently, although ceasing exposure to pheasants and beginning treatment with corticosteroids, his disease progressed to the point where he developed respiratory failure and was referred for lung transplantation. Sadly, he died of progressive respiratory failure and cor pulmonale complicated by bronchopneumonia before this could be achieved.
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