A Cryptogenic Case of Fulminant Fibrosing Organizing Pneumonia

Cryptogenic organizing pneumonia (COP) generally responds well to corticosteroids with a favorable outcome. Rare cases of organizing pneumonia are rapidly progressive. Yousem et al. studied pathologic predictors of idiopathic bronchiolitis obliterans organizing pneumonia/COP with an unfavorable prog...

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Autores principales: Kobayashi, Takehiko, Kitaichi, Masanori, Tachibana, Kazunobu, Kishimoto, Yutaro, Inoue, Yasushi, Kagawa, Tomoko, Maekura, Toshiya, Sugimoto, Chikatoshi, Arai, Toru, Akira, Masanori, Inoue, Yoshikazu
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: The Japanese Society of Internal Medicine 2017
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5491814/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28502934
http://dx.doi.org/10.2169/internalmedicine.56.7371
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Sumario:Cryptogenic organizing pneumonia (COP) generally responds well to corticosteroids with a favorable outcome. Rare cases of organizing pneumonia are rapidly progressive. Yousem et al. studied pathologic predictors of idiopathic bronchiolitis obliterans organizing pneumonia/COP with an unfavorable prognosis. Beardsley and Rassl proposed the name fibrosing organizing pneumonia (FOP). A 74-year-old female non-smoker presented with a 2-week history of dry cough followed by dyspnea and a fever. The clinical course was fulminant, but we successfully performed bronchoscopy. After the diagnosis of FOP, we treated the patient with mechanical ventilation and high-doses of steroids/immunosuppressants, which improved the disease.

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