RT Journal Article
SR Electronic
T1 Respiratory bronchiolitis associated interstitial lung disease (RB-ILD): a case of an acute presentation
JF Thorax
JO Thorax
FD BMJ Publishing Group Ltd and British Thoracic Society
SP 910
OP 911
DO 10.1136/thx.2003.011080
VO 59
IS 10
A1 D Mavridou
A1 D Laws
YR 2004
UL http://thorax.bmj.com/content/59/10/910.abstract
AB Respiratory bronchiolitis associated interstitial lung disease (RB-ILD) is a recently described clinicopathological entity that occurs almost exclusively in current heavy cigarette smokers. Few cases have been reported in the literature and no studies have been carried out on the effect of treatment, which currently consists of smoking cessation with or without corticosteroids. We report the first case of an acute presentation of histologically proven RB-ILD in a young cigarette smoker whose diagnosis and management proved to be difficult. Smoking cessation alone was found to be inadequate so management was combined with corticosteroid therapy.