A patient with exacerbation of idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis which was resolved probably due to the coexisting hyperbilirubinemia?

Tohoku Journal of Experimental Medicine

Volumn 193, Issue 3, 2001, Pages 245-249

  Ohrui, Takashi ^a   Higuchi, Makoto ^a   Kanda, Akio ^a   Matsui, Toshifumi ^a   Sato, Emi ^a   Sasaki, Hidetada ^a  

^a TOHOKU UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

Author keywords

Alveolitis; Antioxidant activity; Conjugated bilirubin; Reactive oxygen species

Indexed keywords

BILIRUBIN;

AGED; ARTICLE; BLOOD; CASE REPORT; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; HUMAN; HYPERBILIRUBINEMIA; INTRAHEPATIC CHOLESTASIS; LUNG; LUNG ALVEOLUS; LUNG FIBROSIS; LUNG FUNCTION TEST; MALE; OXYGEN THERAPY; PATHOLOGY;

AGED; BILIRUBIN; CHOLESTASIS, INTRAHEPATIC; HUMANS; HYPERBILIRUBINEMIA; LUNG; MALE; OXYGEN INHALATION THERAPY; PULMONARY ALVEOLI; PULMONARY FIBROSIS; RESPIRATORY FUNCTION TESTS; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 0035292954     PISSN: 00408727     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1620/tjem.193.245     Document Type: Article

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