A 50-year-old woman with haemoptysis, cough and tachypnea: cholesterol pneumonia accompanying with pulmonary artery hypertension
Autor: | Mengxi Li, Yingying Gu, Chunli Liu, Jinhui Li, Jian Wang, Ying Zhou, Nuofu Zhang |
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Rok vydání: | 2015 |
Předmět: |
Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine
Right heart catheterization medicine.medical_specialty Disease 030204 cardiovascular system & hematology Cholesterol pneumonia Tachypnea 03 medical and health sciences 0302 clinical medicine Endogenous lipoid pneumonia Internal medicine medicine.artery medicine Immunology and Allergy Genetics (clinical) business.industry medicine.disease respiratory tract diseases Pneumonia 030228 respiratory system Methylprednisolone Pulmonary artery Cardiology medicine.symptom business medicine.drug |
Zdroj: | The Clinical Respiratory Journal. 11:254-257 |
ISSN: | 1752-6981 |
DOI: | 10.1111/crj.12329 |
Popis: | Lipoid pneumonia is an uncommon disease caused by the presence of lipid in the alveoli. Here we described a case of a 50-year-old woman with haemoptysis, cough and tachypnea, who was diagnosed with cholesterol pneumonia accompanying with pulmonary artery hypertension. The extremely high pulmonary artery pressure achieved, in this case, is alarming and should alert the physicians that the cholesterol pneumonia may be one of the underlying causes of pulmonary artery hypertension. After a treatment of methylprednisolone, her clinical symptoms were significantly improved, which suggested that steroid might be a promising therapeutic for patients with cholesterol pneumonia. |
Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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