Behçet disease complicated by diffuse alveolar damage.
We report an extremely rare case of Behçet disease complicated by diffuse alveolar damage, which was fatal in this patient. It manifested as progressive diffuse ground-glass attenuation in both lungs on chest radiographs and high-resolution CT. Ground-glass attenuation was confirmed histopathologically as diffuse alveolar damage without identified etiology by open lung biopsy.
Kim
Hee-Kyung
HK
Department of Diagnostic Radiology, College of Medicine, Korea University, Korea University Guro Hospital, Seoul, Korea.
Yong
Hwan-Seok
HS
Oh
Yu-Whan
YW
Shim
Jae Jeong
JJ
Kim
Han Kyeom
HK
Kang
Eun-Young
EY
D001528:Behcet Syndrome / Q000150:complications*; D017809:Fatal Outcome; D006801:Humans; D000860:Hypoxia / Q000503:physiopathology / Q000628:therapy; D008168:Lung / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000473:pathology; D017563:Lung Diseases, Interstitial / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000209:etiology / Q000473:pathology*; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D011650:Pulmonary Alveoli / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000473:pathology*; D035583:Rare Diseases; D012121:Respiration, Artificial / Q000379:methods; D012131:Respiratory Insufficiency / Q000209:etiology; D014057:Tomography, X-Ray Computed / Q000379:methods