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Imaging Features of Systemic Sclerosis-Associated Interstitial Lung Disease
Published on: June 16, 2020
Hyperviscosity syndrome with pulmonary involvement
Susmita Kundu1, Atin Dey, Amitabha Sengupta
1Department of Chest, NRS Medical College and Hospital, Kolkata 700014.
Abstract:
A 44-year-old male presented with dizziness, blurring of vision, unproductive cough, dyspnoea, heaviness of head, fever and hepatosplenomegaly along with reticulonodular infiltration in chest x-ray. His serum showed monoclonal IgM gammopathy. Peripheral blood smear, bone marrow examination and serum protein electrophoresis suggested it was a case of Waldenstrom's macroglobulinaemia. Chest x-ray and CT scan of thorax were suggestive of pulmonary involvement in the form of interstitial lung disease.
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