title: [Case of nonspecific interstitial pneumonia associated with aortitis syndrome].
abstract: A 32-year-old woman was admitted to our hospital because of fever and back pain. Two months previously, she had been given a diagnosis of bacterial pneumonia based on the same symptoms and recovered after antibiotic treatment. Chest CT scans on admission showed a consolidation and thickened pleura in the right lower lobe. Bronchoalveolar lavage fluids showed an alveolar hemorrhage. Lung biopsy specimens showed thickened pulmonary arteries and fibrotic nonspecific interstitial pneumonia (NSIP). Three years later, she was admitted with fever and pain of the left arm and aortitis syndrome was diagnosed. In this case of NSIP pattern associated with aortitis syndrome we speculate that repeated pulmonary infarction and alveolar hemorrhages caused the NSIP pattern.
authors.affiliation: Second Department of Internal Medicine, Nagasaki University School of Medicine.
authors.forename: Noriho
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Sakamoto
authors.forename: Hiroshi
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Mukae
authors.forename: Hiroshi
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Ishii
authors.forename: Seiko
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Nakayama
authors.forename: Tomoyuki
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Kakugawa
authors.forename: Sumako
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Yoshioka
authors.forename: Kanako
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Urabe
authors.forename: Koh
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Abe
authors.forename: Tomayoshi
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Hayashi
authors.forename: Sigeru
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Kohno
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D005260:Female; D006470:Hemorrhage / Q000209:etiology; D006801:Humans; D008171:Lung Diseases / Q000209:etiology; D017563:Lung Diseases, Interstitial / Q000209:etiology* / Q000473:pathology; D011650:Pulmonary Alveoli; D013625:Takayasu Arteritis / Q000150:complications*