Two Siblings With Interstitial Lung Disease

Sean Callahan; Kavita Pal; Diana Gomez; Mark Stoler; Borna Mehrad

doi:10.1016/j.chest.2017.12.020

Two Siblings With Interstitial Lung Disease

Chest. 2018 Apr;153(4):e75-e79. doi: 10.1016/j.chest.2017.12.020.

Authors

Sean Callahan¹, Kavita Pal¹, Diana Gomez¹, Mark Stoler², Borna Mehrad³

Affiliations

¹ Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA.
² Department of Pathology, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA.
³ Division of Pulmonary, Critical Care, and Sleep Medicine, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL. Electronic address: millie.ramos@medicine.ufl.edu.

Abstract

A 52-year-old white woman and her 61-year-old white brother separately presented with gradually worsening dyspnea on exertion and cough, and evidence of interstitial lung disease on chest imaging.

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Case Reports
Research Support, N.I.H., Extramural

MeSH terms

Cough / etiology
Dyspnea / etiology
Female
Humans
Lung Diseases, Interstitial / diagnostic imaging
Lung Diseases, Interstitial / etiology*
Male
Middle Aged
Niemann-Pick Disease, Type B / complications*
Niemann-Pick Disease, Type B / diagnostic imaging
Siblings
Tomography, X-Ray Computed

Abstract

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MeSH terms

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