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An Elusive Case of Acute Interstitial Pneumonia

Acute interstitial pneumonia (AIP) is a rare and severe form of diffuse lung injury that affects previously healthy individuals. It is a subset of idiopathic lung disease with a rapidly progressive course. The prognosis is poor with over 50% of patients dying during hospital admission from progressi...

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Autor principal: Obasi, Jennifer
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Cureus 2019
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6636698/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31333914
http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.4685
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description Acute interstitial pneumonia (AIP) is a rare and severe form of diffuse lung injury that affects previously healthy individuals. It is a subset of idiopathic lung disease with a rapidly progressive course. The prognosis is poor with over 50% of patients dying during hospital admission from progressive respiratory failure. Presented herein is a case of a previously healthy 64-year-old woman without a prior history of tobacco use who presented with progressive hypoxia, dyspnea, and nonspecific constitutional symptoms.
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spelling pubmed-66366982019-07-22 An Elusive Case of Acute Interstitial Pneumonia Obasi, Jennifer Cureus Internal Medicine Acute interstitial pneumonia (AIP) is a rare and severe form of diffuse lung injury that affects previously healthy individuals. It is a subset of idiopathic lung disease with a rapidly progressive course. The prognosis is poor with over 50% of patients dying during hospital admission from progressive respiratory failure. Presented herein is a case of a previously healthy 64-year-old woman without a prior history of tobacco use who presented with progressive hypoxia, dyspnea, and nonspecific constitutional symptoms. Cureus 2019-05-17 /pmc/articles/PMC6636698/ /pubmed/31333914 http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.4685 Text en Copyright © 2019, Obasi et al. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
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title_short An Elusive Case of Acute Interstitial Pneumonia
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6636698/
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