Non Specific Interstitial Pneumonia: A Case Report
Published: January 1, 2018 | DOI: https://doi.org/10.7860/JCDR/2018/26372.11127
Vinitha K Anirudhan, Arun Prasannan, Sahana Devadas
1. Postgraduate, Department of Paediatrics, Bangalore Medical College, Bengaluru, Karnataka, India.
2. Postgraduate, Department of Paediatrics, Bangalore Medical College, Bengaluru, Karnataka, India.
3. Associate Professor, Department of Paediatrics, Bangalore Medical College, Bengaluru, Karnataka, India.
Correspondence
Dr. Vinitha K Anirudhan,
Vineesh Bhavan, Perumpuzha, Kollam-691504, Kerala, India.
E-mail: vinithakanirudhan@gmail.com
Idiopathic Non-Specific Interstitial Pneumonia (NSIP) is a rare entity in children and classified into cellular NSIP (c-NSIP) or fibrotic NSIP patterns. It comes under major idiopathic interstitial pneumonia. Both conditions are characterised by Ground Glass Opacities (GGO), irregular linear opacities and consolidations in a bilateral, symmetrical or sub pleural distribution. It’s a disease with diagnostic difficulty so a multidisciplinary diagnosis was approached for the diagnosis i.e., clinical, radiological and histopathological. The prognosis of this condition is variable; it is a reversible disease with risk of progression. Therefore, early diagnosis and disease stratification are important in this disease. Here we report the case of a three-year-old girl child who presented with atypical clinical and radiological features, but had been diagnosed to have c-NSIP.
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