A case of autoimmune pulmonary alveolar proteinosis with severe respiratory failure treated with segmental lung lavage and oral statin therapy

Pulmonary alveolar proteinosis (PAP) is a diffuse lung disease characterized by the accumulation of alveolar surfactants due to dysfunction of granulocyte-macrophage colony-stimulating factor-dependent cholesterol clearance. Whole-lung lavage is the current standard of care for PAP, but it can lead...

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Autores principales: Takano, Tomotsugu, Takeda, Keisuke, Nakamura, Satoshi, Akiyama, Genta, Ando, Nobuhisa, Komori, Masashi
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Elsevier 2022
Materias:
Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9190053/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35707405
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.rmcr.2022.101684

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https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9190053/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35707405
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.rmcr.2022.101684

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