hypersensitivity pneumonitis
MONDO:0017853Mondo
Findings
No curated finding names hypersensitivity pneumonitis yet. Everything below is reference data from Mondo, HPO and GenCC, not evidence about what affects it.
Definition
Hypersensitivity pneumonitis (HP) is a pulmonary disease with symptoms of dyspnea and cough resulting from the inhalation of an antigen to which the subject has been previously sensitized.
Definition from the Mondo Disease Ontology (MONDO:0017853), read 2026-09-29. CC BY 4.0.
Features
2 features
What the disease is reported to present with, and how often among people who have it — never how often a feature means the disease. HPO, hp/releases/2026-09-01.
- Abnormal pulmonary interstitial morphologyMondoHP:0006530
- Weight lossMondoHP:0001824
Where it sits
- Narrower terms (14)
- bagassosis
- bird fancier's lung
- cork-handlers' disease
- farmer's lung disease
- fibrotic hypersensitivity pneumonitis
- house allergic alveolitis
- hypersensitivity pneumonitis, familial
- idiopathic chronic eosinophilic pneumonia
- malt worker's lung
- maple bark strippers' lung
- mushroom workers' lung
- non-fibrotic hypersensitivity pneumonitis
- sick building syndrome
- ventilation pneumonitis
Other names
5 names
Resolves to: hypersensitivity pneumonitis
- Also called
- allergic form of pneumonitisallergic pneumonitisexogen allergic alveolitisextrinsic allergic alveolitisHP