Obliterative bronchiolitis: virus induced?
This report describes a 28-year-old patient with an acute onset of respiratory symptoms associated with clinical and roentgenographic features of an interstitial lung disease which proved fatal. The entity of bronchiolitis obliterans, which was diagnosed on transbronchial biopsy, is discussed, with particular emphasis on the postinfectious type.
Marinopoulos
G C
GC
Baragwanath Hospital Department of Histopathology, School of Pathology, Johannesburg.
Huddle
K R
KR
Wainwright
H
H
D000208:Acute Disease; D000328:Adult; D001706:Biopsy; D001989:Bronchiolitis Obliterans / Q000188:drug therapy / Q000382:microbiology*; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007181:Inclusion Bodies, Viral / Q000473:pathology; D008168:Lung / Q000473:pathology*; D011241:Prednisone / Q000627:therapeutic use
D011241:Prednisone