ICD-11 classes
12 Diseases of the respiratory system
Lung diseases due to external agents
Pneumonitis
CA70 — Hypersensitivity pneumonitis due to organic dust
CA70.0 — Farmer lung
ICD-11 CA70.0 — Farmer lung
Farmer's lung disease is a hypersensitivity pneumonitis, caused by inhalation of organic dust containing spores of microorganisms, often thermophilic actinomycetes and less commonly Saccharopolyspora rectivirgula, living in mouldy hay, straw, or grain. Typical symptoms include dyspnoea, cough, tiredness, headaches and occasional fever/night sweats, with acute, sub-acute or chronic clinical course and can result in chronic disability with granulomatous disease.
The diagnosis includes nothing.
The diagnosis excludes nothing.
It has no clarifying diagnoses.
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