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- Title
Bilateral pneumothoraces with multiple bullae in a patient with asymptomatic bronchiolitis obliterans 10 years after bone marrow transplantation.
- Authors
Suzuki, T; Saijo, Y; Ebina, M; Yaekashiwa, M; Minegishi, M; Tsuchiya, S; Konno, T; Ono, S; Matsumura, Y; Fujimura, S; Nukiwa, T
- Abstract
A 16-year-old boy developed bronchiolitis obliterans (BO) 10 years after BMT for myelodysplastic syndrome. Although the patient complained of almost no dyspnea on exertion, he had mild hypercapnea with a markedly reduced forced expiratory volume of 0.32 l. Chest X-rays showed occasional bilateral minimal pneumothoraces, which is in accordance with the existence of multiple small bullae found on the pleural surface at video-assisted thoracic surgery. Histologic examination of the biopsied lung revealed BO. This case indicates that BO in adolescence following BMT and possible chronic GVHD may be masked because of lung immaturity at BMT, and BO after BMT may be associated with multiple pleural bullae.
- Subjects
BRONCHITIS; BONE marrow transplantation; MYELODYSPLASTIC syndromes
- Publication
Bone Marrow Transplantation, 1999, Vol 23, Issue 8, p829
- ISSN
0268-3369
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1038/sj.bmt.1701660