OBJECTIVE: To review the literature on general aspects of bronchiolitis obliterans, with emphasis on childhood postinfectious bronchiolitis obliterans.METHODS: The most important publications on bronchiolitis obliterans were selected, using basically the Medline database (January of 1966 to September of 1999).RESULTS: This review is organized as follows: introduction, general aspects of bronchi...

bronchiolitis has been known as one of the pathological features of lung injuries in mustard gas exposed patients the purpose of this research was to evaluate the efficacy of interferon gamma-1b on the lung function in mustard gas exposed patients with bronchiolitis. in multicenter research interferon gamma-1b was effective in pulmonary fibrosis with unknown reason, but assessment of effect of ...

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...

OBJECTIVE The objective of this discovery-level investigation was to use mass spectrometry to identify low mass compounds in bronchoalveolar lavage fluid from lung transplant recipients that associate with bronchiolitis obliterans syndrome. EXPERIMENTAL DESIGN Bronchoalveolar lavage fluid samples from lung transplant recipients were evaluated for small molecules using ESI-TOF mass spectrometr...

Bronchiolitis obliterans is a complication after allogeneic haematopoietic stem cell transplantation (HSCT). Management of bronchiolitis obliterans comprises intensive immunosuppression, but treatment response is poor. We investigated the effect of cyclosporine A (CsA), tacrolimus (FK506), methylprednisolone (mPRED), mycophenolate mofetil (MMF) and everolimus on the proliferation of primary lun...

Bronchiolitis obliterans is an uncommon cause of obstructive airway disease in adults characterised by progressive irreversible airway obstruction. Granulomatous bronchiolitis is a rare entity and tuberculosis presenting as bronchiolitis is distinctly uncommon. The authors present a case of tubercular granulomatous bronchiolitis obliterans, confirmed on histopathology, who responded completely ...

disease involving manyorgan systems. Amongthem, respiratory involvement is frequent including pleuritis, interstitial pneumonitis/flbrosis, and bronchiolitis; the latter two can be life threatening. Obliterative bronchiolopathies in the general population are classified into 3 categories : bronchiolitis obliterans (BO ; obliterative bronchiolitis, OB), diffuse panbronchiolitis (DPB) and bronchi...

OBJECTIVES Bronchiolitis obliterans is the greatest limitation to the long-term applicability of lung transplantation. Although alloimmune events are important, nonimmune events, such as gastroesophageal reflux, might contribute to lung injury and the development of bronchiolitis obliterans syndrome. METHODS We retrospectively studied the 396 patients who underwent lung transplantation at the...

Lower respiratory tract infections by respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) are frequent in childhood. Association of RSV with bronchiolitis obliterans has rarely been established. We report a 13-month-old child with bronchiolitis obliterans following co-infection by RSV and adenovirus, and suggest that complicated evolution of an acute bronchiolitis case can indicate an association of pathogens.

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...