This report describes a patient with right lower lung (RLL) pneumonia of a subacute nature. Sputum and bronchial washings both grew N asteroides. Open lung biopsy showed bronchiolitis obliterans. Both the clinical and radiologic picture dramatically improved during three weeks of treatment with trimethoprim and sulfamethoxazole (TMP SMX), indicating the possibility that N asteroides infection c...

A patient underwent chest irradiation for small-cell carcinoma of the left lung. Several weeks following cessation of irradiation, the patient developed hypoxemia and reticulonodular densities within the radiation port. Open lung biopsy yielded a pathologic diagnosis consistent with irradiation pneumonitis along with a previously unreported association, bronchiolitis obliterans. Bronchiolitis o...

We describe a patient who developed fatal bronchiolitis obliterans following gold therapy and review the relationship between rheumatoid arthritis and bronchiolitis.

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 ...

conclusions inhalation of tiotropium bromide in combination with pulmonary rehabilitation could improve some plethysmographic lung volumes and clinical outcomes in patients with chronic pulmonary disease due to sm. short-term prescription of pulmonary rehabilitation has no effect on cpet of patients. patients and methods in a randomized clinical trial, using convenient sampling method, 54 patie...

Four cases of poisoning by nitrous fumes are reported. Three patients presented with pulmonary oedema, and one of these progressed to the phase of bronchiolitis obliterans; the fourth patient presented with the clinical features of bronchiolitis obliterans. Pulmonary function studies in both phases showed a predominantly restrictive pattern of ventilatory abnormality with a tendency to hypoxaem...

* Study carried out at the Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Rio Grande do Sul (PUCRS, Pontifical Catholic University of Rio Grande do Sul) Porto Alegre, Brazil. 1. Department of Pediatrics, Pediatric Pulmonology Sector, of the Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Rio Grande do Sul (PUCRS, Pontifical Catholic University of Rio Grande do Sul) Hospital São Lucas Porto Alegre, Brazil 2. Pathology...

The patient was a 62 year old man, who suddenly developed obstructive lung disease without a readily definable cause. He had a remarkable family history of deforming rheumatoid arthritis, and a serum rheumatoid factor of 1:1,256, but with no evidence of active rheumatological disease. Clinical, physiological and radiologic features suggested bronchiolitis obliterans, and this was confirmed by o...