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Distal Acinar Emphysema and Interstitial Pneumonia in a Patient with von Recklinghausen's Disease: Five-Year Observation Following Quitting Smoking
- Source :
- Internal Medicine. 36:413-416
- Publication Year :
- 1997
- Publisher :
- Japanese Society of Internal Medicine, 1997.
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Abstract
- Cystic lesion, malignancy and interstitial pneumonia are well-known as pulmonary complications of patients with von Recklinghausen's disease. We report herein an unusual patient with distal acinar emphysema and interstitial pneumonia of prominent hypercellularity demonstrated by transbronchial biopsy and broncho-alveolar lavage fluid (BALF). Six months after quitting smoking, the total cell count of BALF was remarkably reduced. This patient remains stable under 5-year observation in terms of symptoms and findings of both BALF and pulmonary function tests. Quitting smoking may have facilitated a favorable prognosis for the particular lung disease complicated in this patient.
- Subjects :
- Male
Pathology
medicine.medical_specialty
Neurofibromatosis 1
Time Factors
medicine.medical_treatment
Cell Count
Malignancy
Desquamative interstitial pneumonia
Pulmonary function testing
Internal Medicine
medicine
Humans
Neurofibromatosis
Emphysema
medicine.diagnostic_test
business.industry
Macrophages
Smoking
Respiratory disease
General Medicine
Middle Aged
respiratory system
medicine.disease
respiratory tract diseases
Bronchoalveolar lavage
Smoking cessation
Smoking Cessation
Lung Diseases, Interstitial
business
Complication
Bronchoalveolar Lavage Fluid
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Details
- ISSN :
- 13497235 and 09182918
- Volume :
- 36
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- Internal Medicine
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi.dedup.....5599f4b15e9f4f5ae3a1c0afef4c1026