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Can reactive airways dysfunction syndrome (RADS) transform into occupational asthma due to "sensitisation" to
C Leroyer1, L Perfetti, A Cartier
1DEpartment of Chest Medicine, Hôpital du Sacré-Coeur, Gouin, Montréal Canada.
Thorax
|June 13, 1998
Abstract:
The case history is described of a worker who presented with a history suggestive of reactive airways dysfunction syndrome which occurred after an acute high level inhalation of diphenylmethane diisocyanate. Further exposure at work, at a time when concentrations of isocyanates were no longer "irritant", suggested occupational asthma; this diagnosis was confirmed by a specific inhalation challenge test.