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Bronchiolitis obliterans organizing pneumonia and rheumatoid arthritis
J A Ippolito1, L Palmer, S Spector
1Department of Medicine, Radiology, and Pathology, State University of New York at Stony Brook 11794-8161.
Abstract:
The case of a 68-year-old woman who presented with dyspnea and upper lobe pulmonary infiltrates and shortly thereafter developed seropositive, erosive polyarticular rheumatoid arthritis (RA) is presented. An open-lung biopsy to evaluate progression of infiltrates showed bronchiolitis obliterans-organizing pneumonia (BOOP). Both lung and articular disease responded rapidly to corticosteroid therapy. Interrelationships between BOOP, bronchiolitis obliterans, and interstitial fibrosis with connective tissue disease are discussed.
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