Case of Severe Treatment-Resistant Cryptogenic Organizing Pneumonia.

Acta Med Litu

Clinic of Chest Diseases, Immunology and Allergology of Faculty of Medicine, Vilnius University, Vilnius, Lithuania Center of Pulmonology and Allergology, Vilnius University Hospital Santaros Klinikos, Vilnius, Lithuania.

Published: August 2021

Cryptogenic organizing pneumonia is a rare interstitial lung disease with different onset of symptoms, which responds rapidly to glucocorticoid treatment. We present a case of cryptogenic organizing pneumonia which manifested as a progressive 3-year dyspnea that ultimately has led to acute respiratory failure. Moreover, treatment with prednisone for this patient exhibited slow onset of the effect.

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http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8958647PMC
http://dx.doi.org/10.15388/Amed.2021.28.2.12DOI Listing

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