Author: Ning, Ya-Jing; Ding, Pei-Shan; Ke, Zhang-Yan; Zhang, Yan-Bei; Liu, Rong-Yu
Title: Successful steroid treatment for acute fibrinous and organizing pneumonia: A case report Document date: 2018_12_6
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Snippet: This case may serve as a reminder to respiratory phy sicians who encounter a suspected pulmonary infection case but unresponsive to optimum antibiotic therapy in their clinical practice. Although AFOP is a rare entity, it should be considered in the differential diagnosis of pulmonary infection unresponsive to optimum antibiotic therapy. On the other hand, AFOP might be under diagnosed and under reported especially in the developing countries due.....
Document: This case may serve as a reminder to respiratory phy sicians who encounter a suspected pulmonary infection case but unresponsive to optimum antibiotic therapy in their clinical practice. Although AFOP is a rare entity, it should be considered in the differential diagnosis of pulmonary infection unresponsive to optimum antibiotic therapy. On the other hand, AFOP might be under diagnosed and under reported especially in the developing countries due to the complicated means of obtaining a tissue diagnosis which are not routinely performed in the community and secondary hospitals. Our case is distinct. The patient was an 81yearold woman and she had a good response to shortterm steroid treatment. The last followup showed that no relapse occurred during tapering steroids. This case will contribute to a better understanding of the treatment of AFOP in geriatric patients, and provide a new choice of dosage and duration of it. Further more studies are needed to describe various clinical aspects of this rare disease.
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