Chest ACCP Member Benefits
HOME HELP FEEDBACK SUBSCRIPTIONS ARCHIVE SEARCH TABLE OF CONTENTS
QUICK SEARCH:   [advanced]


     

Guest Access | Sign In via User Name/Password
This Article
Right arrow Full Text (PDF) Free
Right arrow Submit a response
Right arrow Alert me when this article is cited
Right arrow Alert me when eLetters are posted
Right arrow Alert me if a correction is posted
Services
Right arrow Email this article to a friend
Right arrow Similar articles in this journal
Right arrow Similar articles in PubMed
Right arrow Alert me to new issues of the journal
Right arrow Add to My Personal Article Archive
Right arrow Download to citation manager
Right arrow reprints & permissions
Citing Articles
Right arrow Citing Articles via HighWire
Right arrow Citing Articles via Google Scholar
Google Scholar
Right arrow Articles by Kokkarinen, J.
Right arrow Articles by Terho, E. O.
Right arrow Search for Related Content
PubMed
Right arrow PubMed Citation
Right arrow Articles by Kokkarinen, J.
Right arrow Articles by Terho, E. O.
(Chest. 1994;106:509-512.)
© 1994 American College of Chest Physicians

Mortality Due to Farmer's Lung in Finland

Jouko Kokkarinen M.D.1; Hannu Tukiainen M.D.1; and Erkki O. Terho M.D.2

1 From the Department of Pulmonary Diseases, Kuopio University Hospital, Kuopio, Finland
2 From the Department of Pulmonary Diseases, Kuopio University Hospital, Kuopio, Finland; and the Department of Clinical Allergology, University of Turku, Turku, Finland

Fatal cases of farmer's lung (FL) are rare. We found, based on death certificates, 13 cases of FL with a fatal outcome in Finland between 1980 and 1990. Compared with incidence data from the years 1980 to 1982, the mortality was estimated as 0.7 percent. On average, death occurred 8 years after the diagnosis of FL. One patient died acutely after a heavy mold exposure. The other patients had chronic disease. Among them the immediate cause of death was pneumonia in seven patients, respiratory insufficiency in four, and pneumothorax in one patient. The majority of these patients with a fatal outcome had suffered from symptoms of FL for more than 1 year before the diagnosis was established and fibrotic changes were already visible in the chest radiograph at the time of the diagnosis.

Submitted on September 20, 1993
Accepted on November 29, 2007




This article has been cited by other articles:


Home page
 ChestHome page
V. Hanak, J. M. Golbin, T. E. Hartman, and J. H. Ryu
High-Resolution CT Findings of Parenchymal Fibrosis Correlate With Prognosis in Hypersensitivity Pneumonitis
Chest, July 1, 2008; 134(1): 133 - 138.
[Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]


HOME HELP FEEDBACK SUBSCRIPTIONS ARCHIVE SEARCH TABLE OF CONTENTS
Copyright © 1994 by the American College of Chest Physicians.