Marked improvement in autoimmune pulmonary alveolar proteinosis with severe hypoxemia in a patient treated with ambroxol: a case report

INTRODUCTION: Pulmonary alveolar proteinosis is characterized by accumulation of surfactant and phospholipids in the pulmonary alveoli. Whole lung lavage is considered the first-line therapy, which requires special techniques. To the best of our knowledge, there have only been limited reports that h...

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Autores principales: Oda, Nao, Tamai, Koji, Suzuki, Yujiro, Yoshimatsu, Harukazu, Matsuoka, Hirofumi, Matsumoto, Yusuke, Okada, Nobuhiko
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2015
Materias:
Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4437789/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25943363
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s13256-015-0588-6

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