title: Bronchiolitis obliterans organizing pneumonia and rheumatoid arthritis.
abstract: 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.
authors.affiliation: Department of Medicine, Radiology, and Pathology, State University of New York at Stony Brook 11794-8161.
authors.forename: J A
authors.initials: JA
authors.lastname: Ippolito
authors.forename: L
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Palmer
authors.forename: S
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Spector
authors.forename: P B
authors.initials: PB
authors.lastname: Kane
authors.forename: P D
authors.initials: PD
authors.lastname: Gorevic
mesh_terms: 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
chemical_list: D011241:Prednisone