A case of bronchiolitis obliterans organizing pneumonia associated with primary Sjögren's syndrome who died of superimposed diffuse alveolar damage

Respiration. 1992;59(2):122-4. doi: 10.1159/000196041.

Abstract

Bronchiolitis obliterans organizing pneumonia (BOOP) developed in association with primary Sjögren's syndrome in a 69-year-old female. She died of diffuse alveolar damage superimposed on BOOP in spite of corticosteroid therapy.

Publication types

  • Case Reports

MeSH terms

  • Aged
  • Bronchiolitis Obliterans / complications*
  • Bronchiolitis Obliterans / diagnostic imaging
  • Bronchiolitis Obliterans / pathology
  • Female
  • Humans
  • Pneumonia / complications*
  • Pneumonia / diagnostic imaging
  • Pneumonia / pathology
  • Pulmonary Alveoli / pathology
  • Sjogren's Syndrome / complications*
  • Tomography, X-Ray Computed