A Dramatic Case of Cryptogenic Organizing Pneumonia Presenting with Acute Respiratory Failure

Dawit Kebede Huluka | Bio
Addis Ababa University, College of Health Sciences, School of Medicine, Department of Internal Medicine
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  • Submited: May 1, 2020
  • Published: December 31, 2020

Abstract

Cryptogenic organizing pneumonia (COP) is one of the idiopathic interstitial lung diseases that seldom result in acute respiratory failure (ARF). We report one of the very few cases of COP in the literature that presented in ARF and improved dramatically.

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How to Cite
Huluka, D. K., Teka, A., & Sherman, C. B. (2020). A Dramatic Case of Cryptogenic Organizing Pneumonia Presenting with Acute Respiratory Failure. Ethiopian Medical Journal, 59(01). Retrieved from https://emjema.org/index.php/EMJ/article/view/1573

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