A Case of Bronchiolitis Interstitial Pneumonitis / 결핵및호흡기질환
Tuberculosis and Respiratory Diseases
;
: 364-368, 2009.
Article
in Korean
| WPRIM
| ID: wpr-190765
ABSTRACT
Bronchiolitis interstitial pneumonitis (BIP), an unclassified and newly described interstitial pneumonia, has a combined feature of prominent bronchiolitis, interstitial inflammation, and fibrosis. It is distinct from bronchiolitis obliterans or bronchiolitis obliterans organizing pneumonia (BOOP). BIP has a better prognosis than common cases of interstitial pneumonia. However, BIP has a poorer prognosis than BOOP. BIP's response to corticosteroids is not as successful as BOOP's response to this treatment. We encountered the case of a 31-year-old woman with BIP with an initial presentation of dyspnea and a cough that had lasted for 3 months. The patient's chest CT scan demonstrated patchy ground glass opacities and multiple ill-defined centrilobular nodules in both lungs, suggesting military tuberculosis or nontuberculous mycobacterial infection. A video-assisted thoracoscopic lung biopsy resulted in the diagnosis of BIP. Clinical symptoms, pulmonary lesions, and pulmonary function tests were improved after oral glucocorticoid therapy.
Full text:
Available
Index:
WPRIM (Western Pacific)
Main subject:
Prognosis
/
Respiratory Function Tests
/
Thorax
/
Tuberculosis
/
Biopsy
/
Fibrosis
/
Bronchiolitis
/
Bronchiolitis Obliterans
/
Adrenal Cortex Hormones
/
Lung Diseases, Interstitial
Type of study:
Prognostic study
Limits:
Adult
/
Female
/
Humans
Language:
Korean
Journal:
Tuberculosis and Respiratory Diseases
Year:
2009
Type:
Article
Similar
MEDLINE
...
LILACS
LIS