Acta clinica Croatica, Vol. 43 No. 3, 2004.
Professional paper
Cryptogenic Organizing Pneumonia - Idiopathic Bronchiolitis Obliterans Organizing Pneumonia
Anto Bekić
Muharem Mehulić
Diana Krmpotić
Suzana Kukulj
Marijan Gorečan
Šimun Križanac
Abstract
Cryptogenic organizing pneumonia is a rare pulmonary disease with characteristic clinical, radiologic and histologic features. The radiologic presentation, and ventilatory and respiratory lung functions reflect the presence of intra-alveolar buds of granulation tissue occurring within the alveoli and alveolar ducts but rarely occupying the bronchiolar lumen. Therefore, it has been accepted that the diagnosis of these characteristic but not specific presentations of cryptogenic organizing pneumonia requires histologic confirmation. The terms cryptogenic organizing pneumonia and idiopathic bronchiolitis obliterans organizing pneumonia are synonyms. There is also secondary organizing pneumonia casually related to various conditions. Presentation is made of two patients with different clinical manifestations of cryptogenic organizing pneumonia: one with low-grade chronic clinical course and migratory inflammatory lung infiltrates, and the other with severe acute clinical manifestations of the disease. In both patients with cryptogenic organizing pneumonia, corticosteroids showed high efficacy for both primary disease and relapses.
Keywords
Bronchiolitis obliterans organizing pneumonia - diagnosis; Bronchiolitis obliterans organizing pneumonia - therapy
Hrčak ID:
14527
URI
Publication date:
1.9.2004.
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