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Table 2 Diagnostic characteristics of patients diagnosed with cHP but did not meet the three criteria used in this study

From: Chronic hypersensitivity pneumonitis in the southeastern United States: an assessment of how clinicians reached the diagnosis

Diagnostic approach

Number of patients = 18 (%)

Steroid responsiveness

9 (50)

Nonspecific imaging (scattered GGO, peripheral consolidation, interstitial infiltrate, transient GGO)

12 (66.7)

Eosinophilia

3 (16.7)