Progressive Pulmonary Fibrocystic Changes of Both Upper Lungs in a Patient with Ankylosing Spondylitis.
10.4046/trd.2015.78.4.459
- Author:
Do Youn KIM
1
;
Seok Jeong LEE
;
Yon Ju RYU
;
Jin Hwa LEE
;
Jung Hyun CHANG
;
Yookyung KIM
Author Information
1. Department of Internal Medicine, Ewha Womans University School of Medicine, Seoul, Korea. medyon@ewha.ac.kr
- Publication Type:Case Report
- Keywords:
Spondylitis, Ankylosing;
Cystic Disease of Lung
- MeSH:
Humans;
Joints;
Lung*;
Middle Aged;
Radiography, Thoracic;
Spondylitis, Ankylosing*;
Tuberculosis
- From:Tuberculosis and Respiratory Diseases
2015;78(4):459-462
- CountryRepublic of Korea
- Language:English
-
Abstract:
Ankylosing spondylitis is a chronic inflammatory multisystem disease that primarily affects the axial joints. Pleuropulmonary involvement is an uncommon extra-articular manifestation of ankylosing spondylitis. There is a wide spectrum of pulmonary parenchymal changes in ankylosing spondylitis, beginning in the early stages of the disease and increasing over time. The lesions are usually asymptomatic, and not visible on chest radiographs in early stages. We reported a case of advanced ankylosing spondylitis in a 56-year-old man with progressive pulmonary bullous fibrocystic changes on both upper lobes that were misdiagnosed as tuberculosis in the early stages of the disease.
