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1A: Chest radiograph (CXR) at patient's admission with bilateral air-space consolidation and interstitial infiltrates.. 1B: Follow-up CXR at 12 weeks showing resolution of the previous parenchymal abnormalities
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A chest radiograph (CXR) exposed bilateral air-space consolidation and interstitial infiltrates (Fig. 1A). After 12 weeks the patient was asymptomatic with a normal laboratory workup, a 20% improvement in FVC (82% predicted), a 16% improvement in DLCO (45.6% predicted) and radiographic normalisation (Fig. 1B).
The high-resolution computed tomography scan (HRCT) revealed large and bilateral areas of patchy alveolar infiltration and linear opacities, the largest with evident are as of an air bronchogram, mainly at the bases; bilateral ground-glass opacification, involving the most organised densification areas; some thick-walled bronchi with distortion and appereance suggestive of small traction bronchiectactis
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A high-resolution computed tomography scan (HRCT) revealed large, bilateral and basal areas of patchy alveolar infiltration, bilateral ground-glass opacification and some thick-walled bronchi with distortion (Fig. 2).