Linked Life Data

20684211

Source:http://linkedlifedata.com/resource/pubmed/id/20684211

Statements in which the resource exists as a subject.
PredicateObject
rdf:type
lifeskim:mentions
pubmed:issue
7
pubmed:dateCreated
2010-8-5
pubmed:abstractText
A 39-year-old man, who had been working in an aluminum processing industry for 18 years, visited our hospital for right chest pain on March 2, 2007. A relapse of right pneumothorax was found, and he was hospitalized. As the pneumothorax did not improve with conservative treatment, video-assisted thoracoscopic biopsy and suturing of the right upper lobe were successfully performed. The pulmonary parenchyma had collapsed, there was pulmonary fibrosis, and lymphocytes had gathered in follicules. Based on elemental analysis results, we diagnosed aluminum lung. It was thought that overexpansion of the lower lobe with the predominant upper lobe fibrosis was caused by the aluminum deposition. We judged his condition to be serious and we started treatment with 25 mg/day prednisolone (PSL), and 120 mg/day cyclosporine (CyA). At the time of writing, he is an outpatient, and is being monitored on a regimen of 5 mg/day PSL and 160 mg/day CyA without any progression of pulmonary fibrosis or relapse of pneumothorax.
pubmed:language
jpn
pubmed:journal
pubmed:citationSubset
IM
pubmed:chemical
pubmed:status
MEDLINE
pubmed:month
Jul
pubmed:issn
1343-3490
pubmed:author
pubmed:issnType
Print
pubmed:volume
48
pubmed:owner
NLM
pubmed:authorsComplete
Y
pubmed:pagination
492-6
pubmed:meshHeading
pubmed:year
2010
pubmed:articleTitle
[A case of repeated bilateral pneumothorax associated with upper lobe predominant fibrosis in an aluminum processing worker].
pubmed:affiliation
Department of Respiratory Medicine, Kanazawa University Graduate School of Medical Science.
pubmed:publicationType
Journal Article, English Abstract, Case Reports