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- Title
Recurrent Pulmonary Fibrosis in a Lung Allograft Secondary to Antisynthetase Syndrome.
- Authors
Scallan, Ciaran; Venado, Aida; Han, Lisa; Haodong Xu; Mulligan, Michael; Raghu, Ganesh; Xu, Haodong
- Abstract
The article describes the case of a 51-year-old female with recurrent nonspecific interstitial pneumonia of the fibrotic pattern (NSIP-F) in the lung allograft and manifested de novo clinical and serological features of antisynthetase syndrome after bilateral lung transplantation for advanced idiopathic fibrotic NSIP. Topics discussed include progressive pulmonary fibrosis, connective tissue disease-associated interstitial lung disease, and treatment with hydroxychloroquine and rituximab.
- Subjects
PULMONARY fibrosis; INTERSTITIAL lung diseases; ANTISYNTHETASE syndrome; LUNG transplantation; HYDROXYCHLOROQUINE; RITUXIMAB
- Publication
Annals of the American Thoracic Society, 2020, Vol 17, Issue 7, p901
- ISSN
2329-6933
- Publication type
case study
- DOI
10.1513/AnnalsATS.202002-126RL