Idiopathic pleuroparenchymal fibroelastosis: The first case to be managed with a successful lung transplant at King Faisal Specialist Hospital and Research Center, Riyadh

Idiopathic Pleuro-Parenchymal Fibroelsatosis (PPFE) is a rare, progressive and recently recognized subtype of idiopathic interstitial lung disease with no recorded successful treatment other than lung transplant. We report a case of idiopathic pleuroparenchymal fibroelastosis from the Middle East, m...

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Autores principales: Aljefri, Nour Abdullah, Abothenain, Fayha Farraj, Hussein, Ahmed Mohamed, Saleh, Waleed, Alkattan, Khaled, Mohammed, Shamayel Faheem, Alhajji, Mohammed
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
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Publicado: Medknow Publications & Media Pvt Ltd 2019
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6341862/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30745942
http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/atm.ATM_106_18
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author Aljefri, Nour Abdullah
Abothenain, Fayha Farraj
Hussein, Ahmed Mohamed
Saleh, Waleed
Alkattan, Khaled
Mohammed, Shamayel Faheem
Alhajji, Mohammed
author_facet Aljefri, Nour Abdullah
Abothenain, Fayha Farraj
Hussein, Ahmed Mohamed
Saleh, Waleed
Alkattan, Khaled
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description Idiopathic Pleuro-Parenchymal Fibroelsatosis (PPFE) is a rare, progressive and recently recognized subtype of idiopathic interstitial lung disease with no recorded successful treatment other than lung transplant. We report a case of idiopathic pleuroparenchymal fibroelastosis from the Middle East, managed successfully by bilateral lung transplant performed on a 26 year old Saudi male.
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spelling pubmed-63418622019-02-11 Idiopathic pleuroparenchymal fibroelastosis: The first case to be managed with a successful lung transplant at King Faisal Specialist Hospital and Research Center, Riyadh Aljefri, Nour Abdullah Abothenain, Fayha Farraj Hussein, Ahmed Mohamed Saleh, Waleed Alkattan, Khaled Mohammed, Shamayel Faheem Alhajji, Mohammed Ann Thorac Med Case Report Idiopathic Pleuro-Parenchymal Fibroelsatosis (PPFE) is a rare, progressive and recently recognized subtype of idiopathic interstitial lung disease with no recorded successful treatment other than lung transplant. We report a case of idiopathic pleuroparenchymal fibroelastosis from the Middle East, managed successfully by bilateral lung transplant performed on a 26 year old Saudi male. Medknow Publications & Media Pvt Ltd 2019 /pmc/articles/PMC6341862/ /pubmed/30745942 http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/atm.ATM_106_18 Text en Copyright: © 2019 Annals of Thoracic Medicine http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0 This is an open access journal, and articles are distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 License, which allows others to remix, tweak, and build upon the work non-commercially, as long as appropriate credit is given and the new creations are licensed under the identical terms.
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Aljefri, Nour Abdullah
Abothenain, Fayha Farraj
Hussein, Ahmed Mohamed
Saleh, Waleed
Alkattan, Khaled
Mohammed, Shamayel Faheem
Alhajji, Mohammed
Idiopathic pleuroparenchymal fibroelastosis: The first case to be managed with a successful lung transplant at King Faisal Specialist Hospital and Research Center, Riyadh
title Idiopathic pleuroparenchymal fibroelastosis: The first case to be managed with a successful lung transplant at King Faisal Specialist Hospital and Research Center, Riyadh
title_full Idiopathic pleuroparenchymal fibroelastosis: The first case to be managed with a successful lung transplant at King Faisal Specialist Hospital and Research Center, Riyadh
title_fullStr Idiopathic pleuroparenchymal fibroelastosis: The first case to be managed with a successful lung transplant at King Faisal Specialist Hospital and Research Center, Riyadh
title_full_unstemmed Idiopathic pleuroparenchymal fibroelastosis: The first case to be managed with a successful lung transplant at King Faisal Specialist Hospital and Research Center, Riyadh
title_short Idiopathic pleuroparenchymal fibroelastosis: The first case to be managed with a successful lung transplant at King Faisal Specialist Hospital and Research Center, Riyadh
title_sort idiopathic pleuroparenchymal fibroelastosis: the first case to be managed with a successful lung transplant at king faisal specialist hospital and research center, riyadh
topic Case Report
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6341862/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30745942
http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/atm.ATM_106_18
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