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Cryptogenic organizing pneumonia (COP) is a rare entity in childhood, particularly in previously healthy children. Moreover, the spontaneous remission of the disease is exceptional. We report on the case of a previously healthy 10-year-old girl who consulted her doctor for a 2-month history of mild
A 69-year-old man was admitted with general fatigue, dyspnea, cough, fever and right pulmonary infiltrations on a chest X-ray films. He had suffered from myocardial infarction 8 years before. Since September 1987, he had been given Aprindine in addition to previous drugs. In early November 1987, he
Cryptogenic organizing pneumonitis is a clinical and pathologic syndrome characterized by a "pneumonia-like" illness with excessive proliferation of granulation tissue within small airways and alveolar ducts associated with chronic inflammation in the surrounding alveoli. The duration of illness
A 69-year-old woman was admitted to our hospital because of slight fever, general fatigue, joint pain and proximal muscle weakness. Severe elevation of serum enzyme levels of CPK, transaminase and aldolase was noted. The chest roentgengram showed diffuse reticular and nodular infiltrates.
BACKGROUND
Cryptogenic organising pneumonia is a particular form of inflammatory and fibroproliferative lung disease. The disease onset is subacute with cough, dyspnoea, fever, weight loss, and elevation of biological inflammatory markers. Chest imaging usually shows multifocal alveolar opacities
OBJECTIVE
Radiotherapy in breast cancer patients is limited by lung tissue tolerance. Two complications involving the lung are known: radiation pneumonitis (RP) and radiation fibrosis. The aim of the study was to evaluate the pattern of bronchoalveolar lavage (BAL) in patients with RP after