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Postgraduate Medical Journal 2002;78:97-98; doi:10.1136/pmj.78.916.97
© 2002 BMJ Publishing Group Ltd and The Fellowship of Postgraduate Medicine.
Postgraduate Medical Journal 2002;78:97-98
© 2002 The Fellowship of Postgraduate Medicine

CASE REPORT

Adult Still's disease and respiratory failure in a 74 year old woman

G S Stoica, R I Cohen, L J Rossoff

Long Island Jewish Medical Center, Long Island Campus of the Albert Einstein College of Medicine, New York, USA

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Dr Leonard J Rossoff, Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, Long Island Jewish Medical Center, Long Island Campus of the Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Room C-20, 270–05 76th Avenue, New Hyde Park, NY 11042, USA;
lrossoff{at}lij.edu

ABSTRACT

A case of adult onset Still's disease in an elderly woman, that was associated with severe respiratory failure and multiorgan dysfunction, is reported. Histopathology was confirmed on open lung biopsy.

Keywords: adult Still's disease; interstitial lung disease; respiratory failure

Abbreviations: NSAIDs; non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs


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