Published ahead of print on April 7, 2004, doi:10.1164/rccm.200312-1749OC
American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine Vol 169. pp. 1304-1307, (2004)
© 2004 American Thoracic Society
Recovery of Methacholine Responsiveness after End of Exposure in Occupational Asthma
Jean-Luc Malo and
Heberto Ghezzo
Department of Chest Medicine, Hôpital du Sacré-C ur de Montréal, Montreal, Quebec, Canada
Correspondence and requests for reprints should be addressed to Jean-Luc Malo, M.D., Department of Chest Medicine, Hôpital du Sacré-Cur de Montréal, 5400 West Gouin Boulevard, Montreal, PQ, H4J 1C5 Canada. E-mail: malojl{at}meddir.umontreal.ca
Recent data suggest that responsiveness to methacholine continues to improve 2 and more years after cessation of exposure to agents causing occupational asthma (OA). The goal of this study was to characterize further the curve of improvement to methacholine responsiveness in subjects with OA. Eighty subjects with confirmed OA who had at least two assessments of a provocative concentration of histamine causing a 20% drop in FEV1 (PC20) and were seen for at least 2 years after cessation of exposure. The shape of recovery of PC20 was assessed by CARMA (James K. Lindsey, Liège, Belgium) analysis. Slopes of recovery were compared in the first 2.5 years in 55 subjects and from 2.5 years until the end of observation in 56 subjects. Recovery curves showed progressive improvements in PC20 significantly influenced by time lapse since end of exposure, sex, baseline PC20, and FEV1. The slopes of recovery were significantly different from zero both for the first 2.5 years after cessation of exposure (0.27 ± 0.05 SEM natural logarithm of PC20 per year) and later (0.09 ± 0.008 SEM natural logarithm of PC20 per year), with the slope significantly steeper for the first 2.5 years. This study shows that improvement in responsiveness to methacholine continues for years after cessation of exposure but that the improvement is more rapid in the first 2.5 years.
Key Words: occupational diseases • occupational asthma • bronchial diseases • asthma • bronchial hyperresponsiveness
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