ICD-11 classes
04 Diseases of the immune system
Allergic or hypersensitivity conditions
4A80 — Allergic or hypersensitivity disorders involving the...
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.
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