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Respiratory failure due to pulmonary lymphangitis carcinomatosis
J Fujita1, Y Yamagishi, A Kubo
1First Department of Internal Medicine, Kagawa Medical School, Japan.
Chest
|March 1, 1993
Abstract:
A man with primary lung cancer developed respiratory failure due to lymphangitis carcinomatosis that was diagnosed by transbronchial lung biopsy specimen. After combination chemotherapy with high-dose etoposide and cisplatin (CDDP), he was able to cease oxygen therapy and showed improvement of his lymphangitis carcinomatosis. He received a total dose of 13,400 mg/m2 of etoposide. This case suggested that respiratory failure due to lymphangitis carcinomatosis can be a treatable condition.