Medical Definition of Idiopathic pulmonary haemosiderosis
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A rare, sporadic, fatal, mostly in children with an equal sex distribution.
The condition also occurs in adults where there is a sex difference (M:F = 2:1). The patients present with recurrent attacks of pulmonary haemorrhage, acute phase: bat-wing alveolar infiltrates, clears rapidly, chronic findings: haemosiderosis, pulmonary fibrosis, cor pulmonale.
(12 Dec 1998)
Lexicographical Neighbors of Idiopathic Pulmonary Haemosiderosis
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