Propylthiouracil-induced 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 secondary to amiodarone: a rare aetiology.

Bronchiolitis obliterans organizing pneumonia (BOOP) is a clinicopathological entity with well-defined diagnostic criteria, the aetiology of which is generally unknown. Among the adverse pulmonary effects of the drug amiodarone, BOOP is the least commonly reported in the literature. In this article we describe a case of amiodarone-induced BOOP.

Sirolimus-induced bronchiolitis obliterans organizing pneumonia in a kidney transplant recipient; a case report and review of literature

BACKGROUND Sirolimus is immunosuppressive drug used to prevent rejection in kidney transplantation. Pulmonary problems are one of the serious complications which may be seen after administration of this drug and it is believed that it could be life threatening. CASE PRESENTATION Here in this paper we presented a 49-years-old man with bronchiolitis obliterans organizing pneumonia (BOOP) induce...

Bronchiolitis obliterans organizing pneumonia after adjuvant radiotherapy for breast carcinoma.

External radiotherapy following surgery for breast carcinoma may induce radiation injury to the lungs in a number of patients. Two types of injury are recognized that are temporally related to radiotherapy; an acute pneumonitis-like illness and fibrosis, with abnormalities confined to the radiation port (1). However, the spectrum of radiotherapy-induced sequelae may be more diverse. Two patient...

Development of bronchiolitis obliterans organizing pneumonia during standard treatment of hepatitis C with Peg-IFNα2b