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Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Shimizu, Tetsuo
• Nakagawa, Yoshiko
• Iida, Yuko
• Hayashi, Kentaro
• Sato, Yoshihiro
• Maruoka, Shuichiro
• Takahashi, Noriaki
• Gon, Yasuhiro

Titel

The Diagnosis of Exogenous Lipoid Pneumonia Caused by the Silent Aspiration of Vegetable Oil Using a Lipidomic Analysis

Ist Teil von

• Internal Medicine, 2020/02/01, Vol.59(3), pp.409-414

Ort / Verlag

Japan: The Japanese Society of Internal Medicine

Erscheinungsjahr

2020

Quelle

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Beschreibungen/Notizen

• We herein report a case of refractory exogenous lipoid pneumonia that was successfully attributed to vegetable oil through a lipidomic analysis of bronchoalveolar lavage fluid (BALF). As a 25-year-old woman diagnosed with lipoid pneumonia experienced repeated exacerbations and improvement, we performed a BALF lipidomic analysis. The major lipid components were oleic acid, linoleic acid, and α-linolenic acid, which are constituents of vegetable oil. She stopped consuming any vegetable oil and has since experienced no instances of lipoid pneumonia relapse. A lipidomic analysis appears to be useful for identifying causative lipids, since patients with lipoid pneumonia are sometimes unaware of aspiration episodes.