منابع مشابه
Chronic hypersensitivity pneumonitis
Hypersensitivity pneumonitis (HSP) is a common interstitial lung disease resulting from inhalation of a large variety of antigens by susceptible individuals. The disease is best classified as acute and chronic. Chronic HSP can be fibrosing or not. Fibrotic HSP has a large differential diagnosis and has a worse prognosis. The most common etiologies for HSP are reviewed. Diagnostic criteria are p...
متن کاملChronic constrictive pericarditis associated with asbestosis.
Observation of chronic constrictive pericarditis associated with pulmonary asbestosis is reported here. Heart catheterization revealed typical patterns of cardiac constriction. The diagnosis of asbestosis was based on pathologic features associated with a long history of asbestos dust exposure without evidence for tuberculosis. The etiology of this constrictive pericarditis was related to an as...
متن کاملChronic pneumonitis simulating bronchiogenic carcinoma.
Although there has been an improvement in the mortality, morbidity, and five year survival rates for those undergoing operative procedures for cancer of the lung, there are many afflicted with the disease who reach the thoracic surgeon too late for satisfactory surgical therapy, the only accepted curative method available today. All members of the medical profession concerned with this problem ...
متن کاملChronic interstitial pneumonitis in end-stage sarcoidosis.
End-stage sarcoidosis is typically characterised by severe interstitial fibrosis occurring along the bronchovascular bundles with cystic changes [1, 2]. Chronic interstitial pneumonitis typically occurs in the early stages of sarcoidosis and is localised to the areas affected by granulomas [3–5]. Herein, we report end-stage sarcoidosis patients who underwent lung transplantation at our centre (...
متن کاملذخیره در منابع من
با ذخیره ی این منبع در منابع من، دسترسی به آن را برای استفاده های بعدی آسان تر کنید
ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: BMJ
سال: 1963
ISSN: 0959-8138,1468-5833
DOI: 10.1136/bmj.2.5373.1654-b