Early Nonrecurrent Idiopathic Pulmonary Hemosiderosis in an Adult

Abstract

IDIOPATHIC pulmonary hemosiderosis is a rare disease in a young adult and until recently was diagnosed only at post-mortem examination. Browning and Houghton1 have reviewed the English literature, finding only 3 adult cases, and added 3 adult cases in their report. Recently, Soergel2 surveyed the entire literature, reporting only 12 documented cases in adults. Only 1 case3 has been reported in an adult over the age of thirty at onset of symptoms.The following case is reported because it is unusual for the disease to have a rapidly fatal outcome without recurrent manifestations and also because its occurrence in a . . .