Two cases of pulmonary lymphangioleiomyomatosis in postmenopausal women.

[lymphangioleiomyomatosis]

Pulmonary lymphangioleiomyomatosis is a rare disease that occurs exclusively in young women , who typically present with progressive dyspnea and repeated spontaneous pneumothorax . The diagnosis of this disease in elderly women with a non-progressive clinical course is extremely rare . We herein report two incidentally discovered cases of pulmonary lymphangioleiomyomatosis in postmenopausal patients . These patients had not presented with any respiratory symptoms . Lymphangioleiomyomatosis may be related to hormonal influences ; however , the etiology and pathogenesis of the pulmonary lesions that develop in postmenopausal females are unclear , even after a review of the literature .

Diseases
Validation

Diseases presenting "dyspnea" symptom

acute rheumatic fever

allergic bronchopulmonary aspergillosis

carcinoma of the gallbladder

congenital diaphragmatic hernia

cushing syndrome

cutaneous mastocytosis

dedifferentiated liposarcoma

erdheim-chester disease

esophageal carcinoma

fabry disease

familial mediterranean fever

inclusion body myositis

liposarcoma

lymphangioleiomyomatosis

neuralgic amyotrophy

pleomorphic liposarcoma

primary effusion lymphoma

scrub typhus

systemic capillary leak syndrome

thoracic outlet syndrome

well-differentiated liposarcoma

This symptom has already been validated