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Case Report of an Infant Unresponsive to Treatment

William F. Howatt, MD; Kathleen P Heidelberger, MD; Dennis P. LeGlovan, MD; Bertram Schnitzer, MD

Am J Dis Child. 1973;126(3):346-348.

Abstract
A 4-month-old child with respiratory symptoms since 2 weeks of age had histological findings of desquamative interstitial pneumonia. Despite steroid therapy the child became progressively worse and died from cor pulmonale. She represents one of the youngest reported patients with this disease and is the first child recognized to die from it. It is suggested that immunosuppressive therapy should be used if steroid treatment fails.

Author Affiliations
Ann Arbor, Mich

From the departments of pediatrics and communicable disease (Dr. Howatt) and pathology (Drs. Heidelberger, LeGlovan, and Schnitzer), University of Michigan Medical Center, Ann Arbor.

Footnotes
Received for publication Dec 8, 1972; accepted March 30, 1973.

Reprint requests to F2826 Mott Children's Hospital, University of Michigan Medical Center, Ann Arbor, MI 48104 (Dr. Howatt).

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