Respiratory Medicine CME
Volume 2, Issue 2 , Pages 77-79, 2009

Desquamative Interstitial Pneumonitis (DIP) occurring during treatment with pegylated interferon and ribavirin

  • Elisa Calabrò

      Affiliations

    • Fondazione IRCCS Istituto Nazionale dei Tumori, Department of Thoracic Surgery, Via Venezian 1, 20133 Milano, Italy
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  • Maurizio Zompatori

      Affiliations

    • Dept of Clinical Sciences, Section of Radiology, University of Parma, Italy
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  • Venerino Poletti

      Affiliations

    • Department of Thoracic Diseases, Ospedale GB Morgagni, Forli, Italy
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  • Dario Olivieri

      Affiliations

    • Dept of Clinical Sciences, Section of Respiratory Diseases, University of Parma, Italy

Received 21 July 2008; accepted 15 October 2008.

Summary 

We present a case of Desquamative Interstitial Pneumonitis occurring during treatment with pegylated Interferon and Ribavirin in a man with HCV infection.

Keywords: Pegylated interferon, Ribavirin, Desquamative Interstitial Pneumonitis

Abbreviations: DIP, Desquamative Interstitial Pneumonitis, HCV, Hepatitis C Virus, IFN, Interferon, ASAT, Aspartate-Amino-Transferase, ALAT, Alanine-Amino-Transferase, TLC, Total Lung Capacity, HRCT, High Resolution Computed Thomography, BAL, Bronchoalveolar Lavage, BOOP, Bronchiolitis Obliterans Organizing Pneumonia

 

PII: S1755-0017(08)00097-3

doi:10.1016/j.rmedc.2008.10.010

Respiratory Medicine CME
Volume 2, Issue 2 , Pages 77-79, 2009

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