A Case of Nonspecific Interstitial Pneumonia in a Patient with Ulcerative Colitis.

Noh, Young Wook; Baik, Eun Kyung; Ryu, Yon Ju; Kim, Seong Eun; Lee, Jin Hwa; Sim, Sung Shin; Lee, Shi Nae; Chun, Eun Mi

doi:2007.62.1.56

Tuberc Respir Dis > Volume 62(1); 2007 > Article

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Tuberculosis and Respiratory Diseases 2007;62(1):56-61.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.4046/trd.2007.62.1.56 Published online January 1, 2007.

A Case of Nonspecific Interstitial Pneumonia in a Patient with Ulcerative Colitis.

Young Wook Noh, Eun Kyung Baik, Yon Ju Ryu, Seong Eun Kim, Jin Hwa Lee, Sung Shin Sim, Shi Nae Lee, Eun Mi Chun

¹Department of Internal Medicine, College of Medicine, Ewha Womans University, Seoul, Korea. cem@ewha.ac.kr
²Department of Radiology, College of Medicine, Ewha Womans University, Seoul, Korea.
³Department of Pathology, College of Medicine, Ewha Womans University, Seoul, Korea.

Abstract

Pulmonary complications of ulcerative colitis are relatively uncommon and may present as a variety of disorders. Ulcerative colitis-related interstitial lung disease is extremely rare. There are a few case reports of nonspecific interstitial pneumonia in ulcerative colitis worldwide but none in Korea. We report a patient with ulcerative colitis related biopsy-proven nonspecific interstitial pneumonia, who responded to prednisolone (1 mg/kg) and mesalazine therapy

Key Words: Nonspecific interstitial pneumonia, Ulcerative colitis