Secondary Pulmonary Alveolar Proteinosis Following Treatment With Azacitidine for Myelodysplastic Syndrome.

Secondary Pulmonary Alveolar Proteinosis Following Treatment With Azacitidine for Myelodysplastic Syndrome. Intern Med. 2019 Dec 26;: Authors: Hashimoto M, Itonaga H, Nannya Y, Taniguchi H, Fukuda Y, Furumoto T, Fujioka M, Kasai S, Taguchi M, Taniguchi H, Sato S, Sawayama Y, Atogami S, Iwasaki K, Hata T, Soda H, Moriuchi Y, Nakata K, Ogawa S, Miyazaki Y Abstract Secondary pulmonary alveolar proteinosis (sPAP) is a complication of myelodysplastic syndrome (MDS). A 60-year-old woman was diagnosed with MDS with excess blasts-1. Fifty-four months after the initial diagnosis, treatment with azacitidine was initiated. Seventy-three months after the diagnosis, a bone marrow examination revealed increased myeloblasts, at which time computed tomography showed diffuse ground-glass opacities and interlobular septal thickening in the bilateral lower lung fields. A lung biopsy revealed the presence of PAP; therefore, the clinical diagnosis of MDS/sPAP was confirmed. Careful attention should be paid to the development of sPAP in MDS patients with pulmonary lesions during azacitidine treatment. PMID: 31875636 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]
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