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Interstitial Lung Disease
Author(s) -
Luce Jm
Publication year - 2012
Publication title -
respirology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.857
H-Index - 85
eISSN - 1440-1843
pISSN - 1323-7799
DOI - 10.1111/j.1440-1843.2012.02295.x
Subject(s) - etiology , multitude , disease , medicine , intensive care medicine , interstitial lung disease , affect (linguistics) , lung , pathology , psychology , political science , communication , law
A 76-year-old woman with a history of heart failure presented with 3 days of non-productive cough and increased dyspnea both at rest and with exertion. The patient had been admitted for community-acquired pneumonia 6 months earlier and has required supplemental home oxygen since that illness. She denied prior history of smoking or significant occupational/environmental pulmonary exposures. On clinical examination, she was afebrile with an oxygen saturation of 93% on room air. Pulmonary auscultation revealed mild respiratory crackles at the lung bases. A high resolution CT of the chest was performed (Figs. 1-3) .