Case Report

Recurrent Interstitial Pneumonitis in a Patient with Entero-Behçet’s Disease Initially Treated with Mesalazine

Table 1

Previous reports of interstitial pneumonia in patients with Behçet’s disease and our case.

AuthorYear publishedNumber of patientsCXR/CT findingsPathological findingsTreatment

Efthimiou et al. [3]19865OpacitiesThrombosis, infarction, hemorrhage, fibrosisN/A
Akoglu et al. [4]19871Diffuse reticulonodular infiltrationInterstitial pneumoniaPSL
Gül et al. [5]19991Mural thrombosis, GGOOrganizing pneumoniamPSL pulse, IVCY monthly
Rutherford et al. [6]20041Patchy infiltrationNonspecific interstitial pneumoniaPSL, IVCY monthly
Ning-Sheng et al. [7]20041GGO, multiple patchy consolidationOrganizing pneumoniamPSL pulse, IVCY monthly
Nanke et al. [8]20072GGO, peripheral nodular opacitiesOrganizing pneumoniaPSL

Our case1GGO, patchy infiltrationNonspecific interstitial inflammationmPSL pulse, IVCY monthly

CXR: chest X-ray; GGO: ground-glass opacities; PSL: prednisolone; mPSL: methylprednisolone; IVCY: intravenous cyclophosphamide; N/A: not available.