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ALL THAT GLITTERS IS NOT GOLD. CONSOLIDATION, PYREXIA AND LEUCOCYTOSIS. CRYPTOGENIC ORGANIZING PNEUMONIA MIMICKING COMMUNITY ACQUIRED PNEUMONIA

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Title: ALL THAT GLITTERS IS NOT GOLD. CONSOLIDATION, PYREXIA AND LEUCOCYTOSIS. CRYPTOGENIC ORGANIZING PNEUMONIA MIMICKING COMMUNITY ACQUIRED PNEUMONIA

Authors: Talha Mahmud, Muhammad Saqib, Guness Mal

Journal: Pakistan journal of chest medicine (Online)

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Year: 2013

Volume: 19

Issue: 4

Language: en

Keywords: Bronchoalveolar lavagePeripheral alveolar infiltratesTransbronchial Biopsy.Bronchiolitis obliterans organizing pneumoniaCryptogenic organising pneumonia

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Pulmonology (4511) Medical Case Reports (44) Pathology (12652) Infectious Diseases (12373) Radiology (9447)

Abstract

An elderly male office worker in a ceramics factory, known to have coronary heart disease and hepatitis C related chronic liver disease was hospitalized with fever, leucocytosis and bilateral peripheral patchy alveolar infiltrates. He was prescribed empirical antibiotics and underwent various investigations including high resolution CT chest after which broncho-alveolar lavage and transbronchial biopsies were performed that were consistant with mixed cellularity and bronchiolitis obliterans organizing pneumonia (BOOP) on histology, respectively. He was treated with prednisolone in tapering doses that lead to clinical and radiological resolution.

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