Bronchiolitis obliterans organizing pneumonia.

Bronchiolitis obliterans organizing pneumonia and rheumatoid arthritis.

Bronchiolitis obliterans, with or without organizing pneumonia, can be a serious and life-threatening complication of rheumatoid arthritis. We describe a case of bronchiolitis obliterans organizing pneumonia in a patient who recently developed rheumatoid arthritis, presenting as a severe respiratory insufficiency. Diagnosis was made by means of open lung biopsy. Treatment with corticosteroids i...

Bronchiolitis obliterans organizing pneumonia in an AIDS patient.

We present a case of bronchiolitis obliterans organizing pneumonia in a patient with acquired immune deficiency syndrome. Only three cases have previously been reported in patients infected with human immunodeficiency virus. In these four cases, bronchiolitis obliterans organizing pneumonia was similar in presentation, radiographic features and clinical course to that occurring in patients not ...

Obliterative bronchiolitis, cryptogenic organising pneumonitis and bronchiolitis obliterans organizing pneumonia: three names for two different conditions.

Over the last five years, increasing confusion has developed over the use of the terms "bronchiolitis obliterans" and "bronchiolitis obliterans organizing pneumonia". The confusion stems largely from the common use of the term "bronchiolitis obliterans" or "obliterative bronchiolitis" in the diagnostic labels applied to two entities which are quite distinct clinically but which bear certain res...

Dermatomyositis without Elevation of Creatine Kinase Presented as Bronchiolitis Obliterans Organizing Pneumonia

A case of dermatomyositis presented as bronchiolitis obliterans organizing pneumonia has been rarely reported. We describe a 46-year-old female patient with dermatomyositis without elevation of creatine kinase presented as bronchiolitis obliterans organizing pneumonia. She was treated with prednisolone and azathioprine. Over a 2-year follow-up she has had no elevation of creatine kinase. The pa...

Percutaneous lung biopsy in the diagnosis of bronchiolitis obliterans organizing pneumonia.

Differential diagnosis of bronchiolitis obliterans organizing pneumonia.

The disease concept of idiopathic BOOP has emerged from a study of many open lung biopsy cases of diffuse infiltrative lung disease. The histopathologic features of idiopathic BOOP have several components: bronchiolitis obliterans, organizing pneumonia, accumulation of foamy cells in the peripheral air spaces, and interstitial infiltration of mononuclear cells. These pathologic findings are non...