mulch pneumonitis is hypersensitivity in CGD patients


  • up to 30% of patients with chronic granulomatous disease (CGD) can have hypersensitivity pneumonitis
  • these patients can have high eosinophil count
  • image shows consolidations
  • biopsy shows granulomas1

Footnotes

  1. Axell-House DB, Harris DA. A Previously Healthy 37-Year-Old Man With Acute Hypoxic Respiratory Failure and Fevers. Chest. 2020 Oct;158(4):e169-e174. doi: 10.1016/j.chest.2020.05.544. PMID: 33036114; PMCID: PMC8097631.