Different Responses to Clarithromycin in Patients with Cryptogenic Organizing Pneumonia / 결핵및호흡기질환
Tuberculosis and Respiratory Diseases
; : 401-407, 2015.
Article
in English
| WPRIM (Western Pacific)
| ID: wpr-149073
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WPRO
ABSTRACT
Cryptogenic organizing pneumonia (COP) is an idiopathic interstitial pneumonia characterized by a subacute course and favorable prognosis with corticosteroids. However, some patients show resistance to steroids. Macrolides have been used with success in those patients showing resistance to steroids. A few reports showed treatment failure with macrolides in patients with COP who were resistant to steroids. In this report, we described two cases of COP who showed different responses to clarithromycin. One recovered completely, but the other gradually showed lung fibrosis with clarithromycin.
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Database:
WPRIM (Western Pacific)
Main subject:
Prognosis
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Steroids
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Fibrosis
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Treatment Failure
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Clarithromycin
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Adrenal Cortex Hormones
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Cryptogenic Organizing Pneumonia
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Macrolides
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Idiopathic Interstitial Pneumonias
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Lung
Type of study:
Prognostic study
Limits:
Humans
Language:
English
Journal:
Tuberculosis and Respiratory Diseases
Year:
2015
Document type:
Article
