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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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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. |
spellingShingle | Internal Medicine Obasi, Jennifer An Elusive Case of Acute Interstitial Pneumonia |
title | An Elusive Case of Acute Interstitial Pneumonia |
title_full | An Elusive Case of Acute Interstitial Pneumonia |
title_fullStr | An Elusive Case of Acute Interstitial Pneumonia |
title_full_unstemmed | An Elusive Case of Acute Interstitial Pneumonia |
title_short | An Elusive Case of Acute Interstitial Pneumonia |
title_sort | elusive case of acute interstitial pneumonia |
topic | Internal Medicine |
url | 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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