Successful treatment of primary Sjögren's syndrome complicated with primary biliary cirrhosis and lung involvement.
A patient with primary Sjögren's syndrome complicated with primary biliary cirrhosis and lymphocytic interstitial pneumonia is presented. She was 38 years old and was admitted to our hospital for generalized pruritus, xerostomia, xerophthalmia, fatigue, and reticulonodular changes on her chest X-ray. With the findings of ground-glass attenuation and centrilobular nodules in high resolution computerized tomography, the diagnosis of lymphocytic interstitial pneumonia was made. Oral methylprednisolone 1 mg/kg/day and ursodeoxycholic acid 15 mg/kg/day were started. At the 6th month follow-up, she had no complaints, and pulmonary function tests and high resolution computerized tomography were normal. This is the first case of Sjögren's syndrome, primary biliary cirrhosis and lymphocytic interstitial pneumonia in the English literature.
Departments of Internal Medicine, Hacettepe University, School of Medicine, Ankara, Turkey. akifa@hacettepe.edu.tr
Akif
A
Altinbaş
Güneş
G
Arik
Umut
U
Kalyoncu
Ali
A
Akdoğan
Omer
O
Karadağ
Bünyamin
B
Kisacik
A Ihsan
AI
Ertenli
D000328:Adult; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008105:Liver Cirrhosis, Biliary / Q000150:complications*; D017563:Lung Diseases, Interstitial / Q000150:complications* / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000188:drug therapy; D008775:Methylprednisolone / Q000627:therapeutic use; D012859:Sjogren's Syndrome / Q000150:complications*; D014057:Tomography, X-Ray Computed; D014580:Ursodeoxycholic Acid / Q000627:therapeutic use
D014580:Ursodeoxycholic Acid; D008775:Methylprednisolone