Immunologic Lung Disease

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Abstract
IN 1972, McCombs published an elegant review of diseases due to immunologic reactions in the lungs.1 Since then, intense interest in pulmonary immunology has provided new insights into the role of immunologic mechanisms in many pulmonary diseases. It is the purpose of this review to survey the diseases of the lung in which immunologic mechanisms seem important and to present current concepts regarding their immunopathogeneses.Diseases Related to Single Immunologic MechanismsAlthough it is probably an oversimplification to consider any immunologic disorder a manifestation of only one mechanism, there are several pulmonary diseases in which one type of immunologic reaction . . .