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A 21-Year-Old Man with Systemic-Onset Juvenile Rheumatoid Arthritis, Cough and Progressive Dyspnea
A Leber,1 S Carette,2 KR Chapman,3 DM Hwang,4 LG Singer,5 and TK Marras
61Department of Medicine, University Health Network, Canada
2Division of Rheumatology, Department of Medicine, University Health Network and Mount Sinai Hospital, Canada
3Division of Respirology, Department of Medicine, University Health Network and Mount Sinai Hospital, Canada
4Department of Pathology, University Health Network, Canada
5Division of Respirology, Department of Medicine, University Health Network and University of Toronto, Canada
6Division of Respirology, Department of Medicine, University Health Network and Mount Sinai Hospital, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Abstract
Primary or nonobstructive, endogenous lipoid pneumonia is a rare clinical entity usually associated with an underlying systemic disease. The present report describes a case involving a 21-year-old man with systemic-onset juvenile rheumatoid arthritis who developed primary endogenous lipoid pneumonia. Multiple treatment regimens were attempted; however, definitive management was only achieved through double-lung transplantation.
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