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IDIOPATHIC PULMONARY HAEMOSIDEROSIS
A rare, sporadic, fatal, mostly in children with an equalsex distribution.
The conditionalso occurs in adults where there is a sexdifference (M:F = 2:1). The patients gift with recurrent attacks of pulmonary haemorrhage, acute phase: bat-wing alveolar infiltrates, clears rapidly, chronic findings: haemosiderosis, pulmonary fibrosis, cor pulmonale.