A case of bronchiolitis obliterans organizing pneumonia associated with primary Sjögren's syndrome who died of superimposed diffuse alveolar damage.
Bronchiolitis obliterans organizing pneumonia (BOOP) developed in association with primary Sjögren's syndrome in a 69-year-old female. She died of diffuse alveolar damage superimposed on BOOP in spite of corticosteroid therapy.
Usui
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Department of Internal Medicine, Yokosuka Kyosai Hospital, Kanagawa, Japan.
Kimula
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Y
Miura
H
H
Kodaira
Y
Y
Takayama
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S
Nakayama
M
M
Kataoka
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N
D000368:Aged; D001989:Bronchiolitis Obliterans / Q000150:complications* / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000473:pathology; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D011014:Pneumonia / Q000150:complications* / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000473:pathology; D011650:Pulmonary Alveoli / Q000473:pathology; D012859:Sjogren's Syndrome / Q000150:complications*; D014057:Tomography, X-Ray Computed