Interstitial Lung Disease
with Chilaiditi Syndrome
Published: December 1, 2016 | DOI: https://doi.org/10.7860/JCDR/2016/23577.9074
Kranti Garg, Prasanta Raghab Mohapatra, Deepak Aggarwal, Robin Gupta, Ashok Kumar Janmeja
1. Assistant Professor, Department of Pulmonary Medicine, D block, Level 5, Government Medical College and Hospital, Chandigarh, India.
2. Professor, Department of Pulmonary Medicine, AIIMS, Bhubaneswar, India.
3. Associate Professor, Department of Pulmonary Medicine, Government Medical College and Hospital, Chandigarh, India.
4. Senior Resident, Department of Pulmonary Medicine, Government Medical College and Hospital, Chandigarh, India.
5. Professor and Head, Department of Pulmonary Medicine, Government Medical College and Hospital, Chandigarh, India.
Correspondence
Dr. Kranti Garg,
Assistant Professor, Department of Pulmonary Medicine, Government Medical College and Hospital,
Sector 32, Chandigarh, India.
E-mail: drkrantigarg@yahoo.com
Chilaiditi sign is the peculiar radiographic presentation of interposition of colon between diaphragm and liver. When associated with symptomatology, it is called as chilaiditi’s syndrome. Though rare, respiratory symptoms may be present. In such cases, it becomes difficult to determine if the symptomatology is due to the syndrome only, or there is some underlying lung involvement, until this is specifically considered in the differential diagnosis. We present a male patient, where thorough investigations revealed Interstitial Lung Disease (ILD), along with Chilaiditi sign on chest radiograph. Respiratory symptomatology responded partially to the management of underlying ILD. It is left for discussion, whether the Chilaiditi syndrome was also contributing to the overall clinical presentation or the respiratory complaints were solely due to ILD and Chilaiditi sign was an incidental finding.
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