Chloroquine treatment in desquamative interstitial pneumonia.
Open Access
- 1 January 1987
- journal article
- research article
- Published by BMJ in Archives of Disease in Childhood
- Vol. 62 (1) , 76-77
- https://doi.org/10.1136/adc.62.1.76
Abstract
An infant presented with failure to thrive, tachypnoea, and hypoxia reversed by oxygen. Lung function showed decreased pulmonary compliance; lung biopsy showed desquamative interstitial pneumonitis. Chloroquine 10 mg/kg/day resulted in improvement and relapse when temporarily stopped. The patient was completely asymptomatic during four years' treatment and six months after stopping treatment.This publication has 7 references indexed in Scilit:
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