Bronchiolitis obliterans organizing pneumonia and rheumatoid arthritis.
The case of a 68-year-old woman who presented with dyspnea and upper lobe pulmonary infiltrates and shortly thereafter developed seropositive, erosive polyarticular rheumatoid arthritis (RA) is presented. An open-lung biopsy to evaluate progression of infiltrates showed bronchiolitis obliterans-organizing pneumonia (BOOP). Both lung and articular disease responded rapidly to corticosteroid therapy. Interrelationships between BOOP, bronchiolitis obliterans, and interstitial fibrosis with connective tissue disease are discussed.
Ippolito
J A
JA
Department of Medicine, Radiology, and Pathology, State University of New York at Stony Brook 11794-8161.
Palmer
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Spector
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S
Kane
P B
PB
Gorevic
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PD
D000368:Aged; D001172:Arthritis, Rheumatoid / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000188:drug therapy / Q000209:etiology*; D001989:Bronchiolitis Obliterans / Q000150:complications* / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000188:drug therapy; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D011014:Pneumonia / Q000150:complications* / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000188:drug therapy; D011241:Prednisone / Q000627:therapeutic use; D011859:Radiography
D011241:Prednisone