Abstract
Acute fibrinous and organizing pneumonia is a newly recognized pattern of lung injury. It may be idiopathic or secondary to a variety of lung injuries. In this case report we describe a 64-year-old male with acute fibrinous and organizing pneumonia caused by decitabine. He had substantial clinical and radiological improvement after the discontinuation of decitabine and a course of corticosteroids.
- acute respiratory distress syndrome
- ARDS
- acute lung injury
- ALI
- decitabine
- myelodysplastic syndrome
- drug induced pneumonitis
- acute fibrinous
- organizing pneumonia
Footnotes
- Correspondence: Tajender S Vasu MD, Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, Thomas Jefferson University, 834 Walnut Street, Suite 650, Philadelphia PA 19107. E-mail: tajender.vasu{at}jeffersonhospital.org.
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