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Desquamative interstitial pneumonitis causing acute respiratory failure, responsive only to immunosuppressants
G Flusser1, G Gurman, H Zirkin
1Division of Anesthesiology, Soroka Medical Center, Ben-Gurion University of Negev, Faculty of Health Sciences, Beer-Sheva, Israel.
Respiration; International Review of Thoracic Diseases
|January 1, 1991
Abstract:
We present a case of a 66-year-old man who suffered from acute respiratory failure due to desquamative interstitial pneumonia. The pneumonitis was resistant to steroids, but responded promptly to cyclophosphamide, with immediate relapse upon withdrawal of the drug.