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Cryptogenic Organizing Pneumonia with Sarcoidosis Overlap: An Atypical Case Study.

Ajmal Nazir NeelambraK Vishak AcharyaSowmya Sundararajan
Published in: Case reports in medicine (2018)
This case report suggests that sarcoidosis as a possible cause of cryptogenic organizing pneumonia is worth considering with the mixed spectrum of presentation as in our case. And to our knowledge, this type of presentation of cryptogenic organizing pneumonia with sarcoidosis as an overlap disease is very rare, and this possibility needs to be explored by more series of such cases.
Keyphrases
  • case report
  • healthcare
  • respiratory failure
  • community acquired pneumonia
  • extracorporeal membrane oxygenation
  • acute respiratory distress syndrome
  • mechanical ventilation