title: Familial extensive idiopathic bilateral pleural fibrosis.
abstract: The authors report three sisters with bilateral isolated apical pleural fibrosis of unknown origin, which did not respond to empirical antituberculosis therapy and oral corticosteroids. The disease evolved in an unrelenting fashion producing pleural fibrosis at the lung bases and leading to the death of two sisters and to lung transplantation in the other one. There was no history of other familial disease or consanguinity. The particular features of these cases and the differences from other reports of apparently cryptogenic pleural fibrosis are outlined.
authors.affiliation: Service de Pneumologie, Hôpital Avicenne, Bobigny, France.
authors.forename: E
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Azoulay
authors.forename: B
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Paugam
authors.forename: M F
authors.initials: MF
authors.lastname: Heymann
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Kambouchner
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Haloun
authors.forename: D
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Valeyre
authors.forename: J P
authors.initials: JP
authors.lastname: Battesti
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Tazi
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D001706:Biopsy; D001999:Bronchoscopy; D003937:Diagnosis, Differential; D017809:Fatal Outcome; D005260:Female; D005355:Fibrosis / Q000150:complications / Q000151:congenital / Q000175:diagnosis; D006801:Humans; D016040:Lung Transplantation; D009679:Nuclear Family; D010995:Pleural Diseases / Q000150:complications / Q000151:congenital* / Q000175:diagnosis; D013902:Radiography, Thoracic; D012131:Respiratory Insufficiency / Q000209:etiology / Q000601:surgery; D014057:Tomography, X-Ray Computed