Interstitial lung disease in a child with antisynthetase syndrome.

Journal: Lung
Published:
Abstract

Background: Antisynthetase Syndrome is associated with interstitial lung disease in adult patients, but this has not been described in children.

Methods: A 13-year-old with interstitial lung disease due to Antisynthetase Syndrome and pulmonary arterial hypertension underwent emergent bilateral lung transplantation after a rapid clinical decline.

Conclusions: We present the clinical, radiographic, and histological findings of a child with interstitial lung disease due to Antisynthetase Syndrome.

Authors
Don Hayes, Peter Baker, Heidi Mansour, Mark Peeples, Kathleen Nicol