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Organizing pneumonia as an extraintestinal manifestation of Crohn's disease in a child
Author(s) -
Inoue Kenji,
Kusunoki Takashi,
Fujii Tatsuya
Publication year - 2017
Publication title -
pediatric pulmonology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.866
H-Index - 106
eISSN - 1099-0496
pISSN - 8755-6863
DOI - 10.1002/ppul.23717
Subject(s) - medicine , etiology , pneumonia , antibiotics , disease , crohn's disease , lung , gastrointestinal tract , inflammatory bowel disease , respiratory disease , intensive care medicine , microbiology and biotechnology , biology
Crohn's disease (CD) is a chronic inflammatory disorder with an unknown etiology that commonly involves the gastrointestinal tract, and bronchopulmonary manifestations only occur in 0.4% of cases. There have not been any reports about pulmonary involvement in pediatric CD patients. We experienced a 14‐year‐old boy with Crohn's disease diagnosed with organizing pneumonia by chest CT‐guided biopsy examination. His pneumonia was intractable despite the administration of multiple antibiotics, and steroid therapy was very effective. In pediatric patients with CD whose lung disease does not respond to antibiotics, OP should be considered as a possible diagnosis.