Korean J Crit Care Med.
2010 Mar;25(1):43-47. 10.4266/kjccm.2010.25.1.43.
A Case of Peripheral T Cell Lymphoma Presenting as Severe Hypoxic Respiratory Failure: A Case Report
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- 1Department of Internal Medicine, Chonnam National University Medical School, Gwangju, Korea. yongsu3@gmail.com
- 2Department of Pathology, Chonnam National University Medical School, Gwangju, Korea.
- 3Department of Radiology, Chonnam National University Medical School, Gwangju, Korea.
- KMID: 2301456
- DOI: http://doi.org/10.4266/kjccm.2010.25.1.43
Abstract
- We describe here the first known case in Korea of pulmonary involvement with peripheral T cell lymphoma and the patient presented with severe hypoxic respiratory failure. A 57-yr-old man was admitted to our hospital with rapid progression of dyspnea and bilateral diffuse infiltration on a chest radiograph. He received mechanical ventilation and low dose corticosteroid treatment under the suspicion of critical illness-related corticosteroid insufficiency. Transbronchial lung biopsy revealed large atypical lymphoid cells with positivity for CD3+. We diagnosed this patient as having a peripheral T cell lymphoma and we treated him with high dose corticosteroid. His clinical and radiologic findings rapidly improved and then he received a full dose of chemotherapy for the peripheral T cell lymphoma.
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