Behçet disease complicated by diffuse alveolar damage

J Thorac Imaging. 2005 Feb;20(1):55-7. doi: 10.1097/01.rti.0000139392.33761.38.

Abstract

We report an extremely rare case of Behçet disease complicated by diffuse alveolar damage, which was fatal in this patient. It manifested as progressive diffuse ground-glass attenuation in both lungs on chest radiographs and high-resolution CT. Ground-glass attenuation was confirmed histopathologically as diffuse alveolar damage without identified etiology by open lung biopsy.

Publication types

  • Case Reports

MeSH terms

  • Behcet Syndrome / complications*
  • Fatal Outcome
  • Humans
  • Hypoxia / physiopathology
  • Hypoxia / therapy
  • Lung / diagnostic imaging
  • Lung / pathology
  • Lung Diseases, Interstitial / diagnosis*
  • Lung Diseases, Interstitial / etiology
  • Lung Diseases, Interstitial / pathology*
  • Male
  • Middle Aged
  • Pulmonary Alveoli / diagnostic imaging
  • Pulmonary Alveoli / pathology*
  • Rare Diseases
  • Respiration, Artificial / methods
  • Respiratory Insufficiency / etiology
  • Tomography, X-Ray Computed / methods