Case records of the Massachusetts General Hospital. Weekly clinicopathological exercises. Case 19-1991. An 80-year-old woman with increasing dyspnea and extensive pulmonary opacities while receiving a decreasing prednisone dose for polymyalgia rheumatica.
D000368:Aged; D000369:Aged, 80 and over; D003937:Diagnosis, Differential; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008168:Lung / Q000473:pathology; D011111:Polymyalgia Rheumatica / Q000188:drug therapy; D011241:Prednisone / Q000008:administration & dosage / Q000627:therapeutic use; D011650:Pulmonary Alveoli / Q000473:pathology; D011658:Pulmonary Fibrosis / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000473:pathology*; D012128:Respiratory Distress Syndrome / Q000175:diagnosis
D011241:Prednisone