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Case report of desquamative interstitial pneumonia: documentation of preserved pulmonary function after twelve
Y Usui1, S Takayama, M Nakayama
1Department of Internal Medicine, Yokosuka Kyosai Hospital, Kanagawa, Japan.
Respiration; International Review of Thoracic Diseases
|January 1, 1992
Abstract:
We describe a case of desquamative interstitial pneumonia diagnosed in a 25-year-old woman who relapsed 12 times during a 20-year follow-up period. In each relapse, the involved sites were different and the patient ultimately recovered without resultant pulmonary ventilatory defects. Bronchoalveolar lavage performed during the 12th relapse revealed a remarkable increase in the number of total cells and showed a low CD4+/CD8+ ratio in the lymphocyte subset.