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This report describes a five-year-old boy with severe pulmonary hemorrhage caused by primary pulmonary hemosiderosis with cow's milk sensitivity. After failing to respond to corticosteroids and azathioprine, he dramatically improved after being given cyclophosphamide. He worsened after discontinuation of cyclophosphamide on two occasions and improved significantly with its reinstitution. Cyclop...

BACKGROUND The purpose of this study was to determine whether the SWI sequence may improve the MRI evaluation of hemosiderin deposits in the brain. CASE REPORT We report a case of a 7-year-old girl after a total resection of a large tumor mass (ependymoma G II) located in the left hemisphere. Late complication of surgery was hemosiderosis of the brain diagnosed with SWI sequence. CONCLUSION...

Idiopathic pulmonary hemosiderosis (IPH), the main cause of pulmonary hemosiderosis in children, is characterized by intermittent alveolar bleeding and hemosiderin-laden macrophages in sputum and in gastric lavage. The treatment is based on corticosteroids and cytotoxic drugs, under special conditions. We describe the case of a 7-year-old girl with IPH who achieved partial clinical remission wi...

Electron microscopic and immunofluorescent studies are reported in a patient with idiopathic pulmonary hemosiderosis, suggesting that idiopathic pulmonary hemosiderosis is distinct from other pulmonary hemorrhagic syndromes associated with antibasement membrane antibody or immune complex mediated diseases. The ultrastructural studies showed evidence of nonspecific lung injury and indirect evide...

A Case of Idiopathic Pulmonary Hemosiderosis Recurrent After Remission of Fifteen Years and Associated with Sjogren's Syndrome Naoto Iijima, Yoshio Torii, Shinsuke Ito, Kouji Hiramatu, Masayuki Suzuki, Takashi Ito and Yoshihiro Senda Nagoya Second Red Cross Hospital, Respiratory Department, 2-9 Myouken-cho, Syouwa-ku, Nagoya Japan A 24-year-old female, in whom idiopathic pulmonary hemsiderosis ...

background: in recent years, the success in management of thalassemic patients, has allowed for some previously unrecognized complications including renal abnormalities to emerge. this prospective study aimed to investigate kidney iron overload by means of mri t2* and also renal function based on laboratory tests for early markers of glomerular and tubular dysfunction among adult iranian transf...

A two-month-old male with past medical history of recurrent diarrhea and failure to thrive presented with persistent cough, tachypnea and high inflammatory markers despite antibiotic treatment for pneumonia. One week earlier our patient was diagnosed with bilateral pneumonia based on same symptoms as well as chest x-ray findings, and was started on Amoxicillin 80mg/kg/day. There was no fever. P...