Cryptogenic Organizing Pneumonia (COP)
I. What every physician needs to know. Bronchiolitis obliterans with organizing pneumonia (BOOP), originally described in 1985, is now more appropriately called cryptogenic organizing pneumonia (COP). It is one of the acute/subacute idiopathic interstitial pneumonias, along with Idiopathic Pulmonary Fibrosis and Acute Interstitial Pneumonia, among others. COP is a rare pulmonary disorder characterized by dry…