학술논문

Interstitial Pneumonia Secondary to Hermansky-Pudlak Syndrome Type 4 Treated with Different Antifibrotic Agents
Document Type
Journal Article
Source
Internal Medicine. 2021, 60(5):783
Subject
Hermansky-Pudlak syndrome type 4
antifibrotic agents
idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis
interstitial pneumonia
nintedanib
pirfenidone
Language
English
ISSN
0918-2918
1349-7235
Abstract
Hermansky-Pudlak syndrome (HPS) is an autosomal recessive hereditary disease that may be complicated by progressive and potentially fatal interstitial pneumonia. We herein report a 64-year-old woman with interstitial pneumonia associated with HPS type 4 whom we treated with nintedanib after pirfenidone proved ineffective. To our knowledge, there have been no previous reports of nintedanib being used to treat a patient with HPS type 4. There is a need for clinical trials of antifibrotic agents, including nintedanib, pirfenidone, and new therapeutic agents with different mechanisms of action in these patients.