Emphysema and COPD in a young woman

A 28-year old woman presented with a progressive cough and breathlessness. She had a family history of early onset COPD. Spirometry demonstrated airflow obstruction with no reversibility. An HRCT showed extensive centrolobular emphysema with an upper lobe predominance. Blood tests including an Alpha...

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Autores principales: Conroy, Kevin, Miller, Graham, Shipley, Mark
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Elsevier 2014
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4061421/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26029541
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.rmcr.2014.03.003
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description A 28-year old woman presented with a progressive cough and breathlessness. She had a family history of early onset COPD. Spirometry demonstrated airflow obstruction with no reversibility. An HRCT showed extensive centrolobular emphysema with an upper lobe predominance. Blood tests including an Alpha – 1 Antitrypsin level were normal.
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spelling pubmed-40614212014-10-15 Emphysema and COPD in a young woman Conroy, Kevin Miller, Graham Shipley, Mark Respir Med Case Rep Case Report A 28-year old woman presented with a progressive cough and breathlessness. She had a family history of early onset COPD. Spirometry demonstrated airflow obstruction with no reversibility. An HRCT showed extensive centrolobular emphysema with an upper lobe predominance. Blood tests including an Alpha – 1 Antitrypsin level were normal. Elsevier 2014-04-26 /pmc/articles/PMC4061421/ /pubmed/26029541 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.rmcr.2014.03.003 Text en © 2014 The Authors http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0/ This is an open access article under the CC BY-NC-SA license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0/).
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