BACKGROUND Bronchiolitis obliterans organizing pneumonia is a rare disease that mimics infectious pneumonia. Most patients respond well to corticosteroid therapy. METHODS We report a single case and findings from an English language literature search of MEDLINE using key words "bronchiolitis obliterans organizing pneumonia." RESULTS AND CONCLUSIONS Bronchiolitis obliterans organizing pneumo...

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...

lps-responsive beige-like anchor (lrba) deficiency is a disease which has recently been described in a group of patients with common variable immunodeficiency (cvid) in association with autoimmunity and/or inflammatory bowel disease (ibd)-like phenotype. we here describe a 10-year-old boy who experienced recurrent infections, mainly in the respiratory system, associated with thrombocytopenia an...

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...

organizing lobar pneumonia is a rare form of bronchiolitis obliterans organizing pneumonia.  herein, we report a rare case of organizing pneumonia involving lung, mediastinum and esophagus.  a 16-year-old girl was referred to our center with clinical signs and symptoms of dysphagia and weight loss.  the main abnormal radiologic and endoscopic findings were stricture of the lower third of esopha...

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 ...

Organizing Lobar Pneumonia is a rare form of Bronchiolitis Obliterans Organizing Pneumonia.  Herein, we report a rare case of organizing pneumonia involving lung, mediastinum and esophagus.  A 16-year-old girl was referred to our center with clinical signs and symptoms of dysphagia and weight loss.  The main abnormal radiologic and endoscopic findings were stricture of the lower third of esopha...

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...

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