• Tuberculosis and Respiratory Diseases
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• 제61권5호
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• pp.479-483
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• 2006

급성 섬유소성 기질화 폐렴 (AFOP)은 임상적으로 급성 간질성 폐렴과 유사하지만 세기관지내 섬유소 축적을 보이며 유리질막이 존재하지 않는 조직학적 특성을 갖는 간질성 폐렴의 한 형태이다. 일부 보고나 본 증례에 따르면 임상경과는 급성 간질성 폐렴보다 비교적 양호한 것으로 기대된다. 그러므로 급격히 진행하는 호흡곤란을 호소하는 환자에게 거친 호흡음과 함께 수포음이 들리고, 방사선 검사상 양측 폐 전반에 걸쳐 현저한 간유리 음영이 있을 경우 조직소견을 바탕으로 급성 간질성 폐렴이나 다른 간질성 폐질환을 감별진단하고 치료방법을 결정하고 병의 경과 및 예후를 예측할 수 있다.

• Journal of Yeungnam Medical Science
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• 제36권1호
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• pp.8-15
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• 2019

Connective tissue diseases (CTDs) can affect all compartments of the lungs, including airways, alveoli, interstitium, vessels, and pleura. CTD-associated lung diseases (CTD-LDs) may present as diffuse lung disease or as focal lesions, and there is significant heterogeneity between the individual CTDs in their clinical and pathological manifestations. CTD-LDs may presage the clinical diagnosis a primary CTD, or it may develop in the context of an established CTD diagnosis. CTD-LDs reveal acute, chronic or mixed pattern of lung and pleural manifestations. Histopathological findings of diverse morphological changes can be present in CTD-LDs airway lesions (chronic bronchitis/bronchiolitis, follicular bronchiolitis, etc.), interstitial lung diseases (nonspecific interstitial pneumonia/fibrosis, usual interstitial pneumonia, lymphocytic interstitial pneumonia, diffuse alveolar damage, and organizing pneumonia), pleural changes (acute fibrinous or chronic fibrous pleuritis), and vascular changes (vasculitis, capillaritis, pulmonary hemorrhage, etc.). CTD patients can be exposed to various infectious diseases when taking immunosuppressive drugs. Histopathological patterns of CTD-LDs are generally nonspecific, and other diseases that can cause similar lesions in the lungs must be considered before the diagnosis of CTD-LDs. A multidisciplinary team involving pathologists, clinicians, and radiologists can adequately make a proper diagnosis of CTD-LDs.

• Tuberculosis and Respiratory Diseases
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• 제71권5호
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• pp.368-372
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• 2011

Acute fibrinous and organizing pneumonia is a newly recognized pattern of acute lung injury. A 49-year-old female presented with a cough and worsening dyspnea on exertion. She had no history of smoking and no specific past medical history except exposure of home humidifier containing sterilizer. A chest computed tomography scan showed patchy consolidation with fibrosis in the right lower lobe and ill-defined centrilobular ground glass opacity in both lungs. The pathological findings were patchy areas of lung parenchyma with fibrin deposits in the alveolar ducts and alveoli, and fibrin balls with hemosiderin deposition in the alveolar spaces. The histological pattern of our case is differentiated from diffuse alveolar damage by the absence of hyaline membranes, and from eosinophilic pneumonia by the lack of eosinophils. In our case, the patient was treated with corticosteroid pulse therapy. However, the clinical course became aggravated and she died within two weeks.