%0 Journal Article
%T Idiopathic pleuroparenchymal fibroelastosis: The first case to be managed with a successful lung transplant at King Faisal Specialist Hospital and Research Center, Riyadh
%A Ahmed Mohamed Hussein
%A Fayha Farraj Abothenain
%A Khaled Alkattan
%A Mohammed Alhajji
%A Nour Abdullah Aljefri
%A Shamayel Faheem Mohammed
%A Waleed Saleh
%J Archive of "Annals of Thoracic Medicine".
%D 2019
%R 10.4103/atm.ATM_106_18
%X Idiopathic Pleuro-Parenchymal Fibroelsatosis (PPFE) is a rare, progressive and recently recognized subtype of idiopathic interstitial lung disease with no recorded successful treatment other than lung transplant. We report a case of idiopathic pleuroparenchymal fibroelastosis from the Middle East, managed successfully by bilateral lung transplant performed on a 26 year old Saudi male
%K Interstitial lung disease
%K lung transplant
%K pleuroparenchymal fibroelastosis
%U https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6341862/