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.
| Author | Year published | Number of patients | CXR/CT findings | Pathological findings | Treatment |
| Efthimiou et al. [3] | 1986 | 5 | Opacities | Thrombosis, infarction, hemorrhage, fibrosis | N/A | Akoglu et al. [4] | 1987 | 1 | Diffuse reticulonodular infiltration | Interstitial pneumonia | PSL | Gül et al. [5] | 1999 | 1 | Mural thrombosis, GGO | Organizing pneumonia | mPSL pulse, IVCY monthly | Rutherford et al. [6] | 2004 | 1 | Patchy infiltration | Nonspecific interstitial pneumonia | PSL, IVCY monthly | Ning-Sheng et al. [7] | 2004 | 1 | GGO, multiple patchy consolidation | Organizing pneumonia | mPSL pulse, IVCY monthly | Nanke et al. [8] | 2007 | 2 | GGO, peripheral nodular opacities | Organizing pneumonia | PSL |
| Our case | | 1 | GGO, patchy infiltration | Nonspecific interstitial inflammation | mPSL pulse, IVCY monthly |
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CXR: chest X-ray; GGO: ground-glass opacities; PSL: prednisolone; mPSL: methylprednisolone; IVCY: intravenous cyclophosphamide; N/A: not available.
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