著者
Gaku Ikegami Tokuro Abe Keiichi Akasaka Akemi Kouyama Ryosuke Souma Takashi Matsuo Kenya Kouyama Hiroki Fujiwara Toshio Ichiwata Koshu Nagao
出版者
The Japanese Society of Internal Medicine
雑誌
Internal Medicine (ISSN:09182918)
巻号頁・発行日
vol.48, no.24, pp.2123-2127, 2009 (Released:2009-12-15)
参考文献数
17
被引用文献数
11 11

Bilateral phrenic nerve paralysis (BPP) is a relatively rare disease manifested by slight dyspnea at rest and on exertion in the sitting and standing positions and by dyspnea in the supine position. A 67-year-old man, who was a painter presented with severe pain in both shoulder regions that had evolved into orthopnea and forced him to sleep in a sitting position at night. Dyspnea and paradoxical respiratory movement in the supine position raised suspicions of BPP. The most striking feature in this case was that the rapid onset of pain in both shoulder regions was followed by BPP. The BPP was considered to be secondary to neuralgic amyotrophy (NA).
著者
Shintaro Sato Kenji Kusano Hiroki Ohta Yuta Tsukahara Gen Kida Emiri Tsumiyama Tomotaka Nishizawa Tomohiro Oba Rie Kawabe Hideaki Yamakawa Keiichi Akasaka Masako Amano Tamiko Takemura Hidekazu Matsushima
出版者
The Japanese Society of Internal Medicine
雑誌
Internal Medicine (ISSN:09182918)
巻号頁・発行日
pp.5674-20, (Released:2021-02-22)
参考文献数
18
被引用文献数
1

A 60-year-old Japanese woman was admitted to our hospital with a fever and shortness of breath occurring immediately after using hairspray. Chest high-resolution computed tomography (HRCT) showed ground-glass opacities (GGOs) predominantly distributed around the bronchovascular bundles, and a pathological evaluation by a transbronchial lung cryobiopsy (TBLC) revealed fibrotic non-specific interstitial pneumonia (f-NSIP). Her symptoms disappeared without the use of corticosteroids, and GGO on HRCT improved markedly over time. This case suggests that a pathological evaluation by a TBLC for lung injury due to inhalation pathogen exposure may provide a more accurate diagnosis and a better understanding of the pathology from bronchial to interstitial lesions than transbronchial lung biopsy.