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The medical lung diseases are a huge topic. Most pathologists have little to do with 'em. They are the domain of respirology. An introduction to lung pathology is in the lung article, along with a general approach.

This article includes a discussion about pulmonary hypertension, which may arise due to congenital heart disease.

Acute infectious pneumonia

This is seen by pathologists in autopsy from time-to-time.

Radiologic correlate

  • Air space disease.

Gross pathology

  • Consolidation (the lung parenchyma is firm) - best appreciated by running a finger over the cut surface from normal region to abnormal region.

Microscopy

Features:

  • Alveoli packed with PMNs.
  • +/-Clusters of bacteria - small dots or rods.

Image: Normal alveoli & pneumonia (WC).

Asthma

General

  • The bread and butter of respirology.
  • Associated with atopy.
  • Mast cells thought to play an important role.

Microscopic

Features:[1]

  • Edema.
  • Mucous.
  • +/-Smooth muscle hypertrophy.
  • +/-Inflammation - especially with eosinophils.
  • +/-Charcot-Leyden crystals (formed from eosinophilic granules).
    • Sharp edge, diamond shaped, intense pink.

Images:

Notes:

  • Leyden in Charcot-Leyden is also seen written as Leiden.

Pulmonary edema

General

  • Seen in a number of conditions, e.g. congestive heart failure.

Microscopic

Features:[2]

  • Dilated capillaries.
  • Blood in airspace.
  • Plasma proteins in airspace - light pink acellular junk.
  • +/-Hemosiderin-laden macrophages (heart failure cells).

Organizing pneumonia

General

  • Multiple causes, e.g. transplant rejection, infection.

Clinical diagnoses:

  • Transplant rejection.
  • Cryptogenic organizing pneumonia (COP).
    • AKA bronchiolitis obliterans organizing pneumonia (BOOP).

Microscopic

Features:[3]

  • Distal airway disease -- airways plugged with organizing exudate.
    • "Organized exudate" = fluffy light-staining paucicellular regions with stellate cells (fibroblasts?).

Idiopathic interstitial pneumonia

  • Often abbreviated IIP, is a term used for a type of diffuse lung disease.
    • Diffuse lung disease is also known as interstitial lung disease.
      • Diffuse lung disease is probably a better term... as some diseases lumped into this category have involvement of the alveoli, i.e. are not interstitial.

Histologic classification of IIP

Idiopathic interstitial pneumonia can be subclassified based on histologic appearance into the following patterns:[7][8]

Histology Clinical Correlates
Desquamative interstitial pneumonia (DIP) DIP
Diffuse alveolar damage (DAD) ARDS, AIP, TRALI
Nonspecific interstitial pneumonia (NSIP) NSIP
Respiratory bronchiolitis RB-ILD
Usual interstitial pneumonia (UIP) CVD, IPF, drug toxicity, pneumoconiosis
Organizing pneumonia Cryptogenic organizing pneumonia
Lymphoid interstitial pneumonia (LIP) LIP

ARDS = adult respiratory distress syndrome, AIP = acute interstitial pneumonia, TRALI = transfusion related acute lung injury, CVD = collagen vascular disease, IPF = idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis.


Notes:

  • Usual interstitial pneumonia is the most common type of ILD.[9]

Fibrosis

Histomorphological classification

  1. Hyaline membranes - glassy pink material lining airways & alveoli.
  2. Microscopic honeycombing - "holes" in the lung.
  3. Bronchiolization - ciliated (respiratory) epithelium in distal airway.
  4. Uniform alveolar septal thickening - septae look similar at low power.
  5. Peripheral lobular fibrosis - septae thickening peripheral, HRCT shows: irregular peripheral reticular opacities.[10]
    • Reticular = net-like.[11]
  6. Siderophages in alveoli - macrophages with hemosiderin the alveoli.
  7. Fibrinous pleuritis - peripheral only (based on imaging).
  8. Granulomata, non-necrotizing.
  9. Abundance of vacuolated cells.
  10. Chronic inflammation.
  11. Bronchiolocentric scarring - fibrosis concentrated around airway/assoc. with airway.

Radiologic/gross pathologic DDx by location

Causes of lower lung fibrosis BAD RASH:[12]

  • Brochiolitis obliterans with organizing pneumonia (BOOP).
  • Asbestosis.
  • Drugs (nitrofurantoin, hydralazine, isoniazid (INH), amiodarone).
  • Rheumatologic disease.
  • Aspiration.
  • Scleroderma.
  • Hamman-Rich syndrome (really should be -- interstital pulmonary fibrosis).

Causes of upper lung fibrosis FASSTEN:[13]

  • Farmer's lung.
  • Ankylosing spondylitis.
  • Sarcoidosis.
  • Silicosis.
  • Tuberculosis (miliary).
  • Eosinophilic granuloma.
  • Neurofibromatosis.

Prognosis

  • The pattern and severity of fibrosis seems to be the most important factors prognostically - more important than the underlying cause (ILD, CVD, drug reaction etc.).[14][15]

Patterns of fibrosis:

  • "Linear" - follows alveolar walls, no architectural distortion.
  • UIP-like (honeycombing).

Disease with fibrosis

There are many of 'em.

Diffuse alveolar damage

General

  • Abbreviated DAD.

DAD is the histologic correlate of:

  • Adult respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS).
  • Acute interstitial pneumonia (AIP).
  • Transfusion related acute lung injury (TRALI).

Microscopic

Features:[16]

  • Early:
    • Hyaline membrane: debris (pink crap) lines the alveolar spaces.
  • Intermediate:
    • Macrophage proliferation.
  • Late:
    • Interstitial inflammation.
    • Fibrosis.

Image: Diffuse alveolar damage (WC).

Usual interstitial pneumonia

General

  • It is sometimes used incorrectly as a synoym for idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis.
  • Cannot be diagnosed via bronchoscopic or transbronchial biopsy.[17]

Epidemiology

  • Disease of the old - rare in under 50 years old.[18]
  • Dismal prognosis - mean survival after diagnosis ~ 2.8 years.[14]

Differential diagnosis

UIP is seen in:[19]

  • Idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis.
  • Asbestosis - one ought to see ferruginous bodies.
  • Chronic hypersensitivity pneumonitis (extrinsic allergic alveolitis).
  • Collagen vascular disease.
  • Chronic drug toxicity.[20]

Radiologic

  • Honeycombing - multiple defects that obliterate the normal lung architecture - multiple spherical voids in the lung parenchyma; radiologically these are seen as lucencies.[21]
    • Usually subplural, i.e. peripheral lung.
    • Classically lower lobe predominant.
    • Associated with interstitial thickening. (???)

Note:

  • Cysts - have thin walls (think of emphysema, lymphangioleiomyomatosis et cetera).
    • Cysts may be isolated/not close to a neighbour.
    • Medcyclopaedia defines it as: thin-walled, well-demarcated and >1 cm.[22]

Histology

Features:[23]

  • Fibroblast foci:
    • "Crescent-shaped bulge" of fibroblasts -- a rounded projection of spindle cells into the airspace.
    • Location: in the areas of transisition between active inflammation and old inflammation.[24]
    • Note: Technically, fibroblast foci are composed of myofibroblasts.[25]
  • Interstitial inflammation,
  • Microscopic honeycombing,
    • Typically peripheral - cysts lined by ciliated epithelium.
  • Spatial heterogeneity - patchy lesional distribution (areas of abnormal and normal lung may appear beside one another).
  • Temporal heterogeneity - lesions of differing age side-by-side.[26]

Notes:

  • Disease worse distant from large airways: lower lung field predominance, typically worse at periphery of lobule and lung.[27]
  • Heterogeneity of inflammation: airspace macrophages & inflammation minimal in honeycombed foci.

Asbestosis

General

  • Important to diagnose... asbestosis = compensation.

Microscopic

  • Histologic appearance as for UIP -- plus ferruginous bodies.
    • Segmented twirling batton with long slender fibre within.

Image(s):

Non-specific interstitial pneumonia

  • Abbreviated NSIP.
  • Better prognosis than UIP.
  • Some radiologists and pathologists don't believe in this entity.

Gross/Radiology

  • No honeycombing.
  • Fibrosis usually lower lung zone.
  • Patchy ground glass.

Microscopic

  • Fibrosis:
    • May be uniform.
    • "Linear fibrosis" has a good prognosis - should be mentioned in the report.
      • Linear fibrosis = fibrosis that follows alveolar walls + no architectural distortion.
  • +/-Lymphoid nodules - assoc. with collagen vascular disease.

Notes:

  • Like UIP... also temporally and spatially heterogeneous.
  • Inflammation in NSIP usually more prominent than in UIP.
  • No honeycombing - key difference between UIP and NSIP.

DDx

  • Collagen vascular disease.
  • Drug reaction.
  • Hypersensitivity pneumonitis (extrinic allergic alveolitis).

Diseases with prominent bronchiolization

There are many.

Pulmonary Langerhans cell histiocytosis

General

  • Assoc. with smoking.[28]
  • Not assoc. with systemic diseases of Langerhans cells (AKA Hand-Schueller-Christian disease).

Subtypes:[28]

  • Cellular form.
  • Fibrotic form.

One form usually predominantes.

Histology

Features:[29]

  • Langerhans cells:
    • Pale staining nucleus (H&E) with nuclear infolding - "crumpled tissue paper" appearance.
  • +/-Smoker's macrophages.
  • +/-Eosinophilia.

IHC

  • Langerhans cells: S100+ and CD1a+.[30]

Smoking assoc. disease

  • RB = respiratory bronchiolitis.
  • RBILD = respiratory bronchiolitis interstitial lung disease.
  • DIP = desquamative interstitial pneumonia.
  • Eosinophilic granuloma (of lung) - AKA pulmonary langerhans cell histiocytosis.

All of the above are assoc. with smoking. RBILD & DIP are considered by many to be on a continuum, i.e. RBILD is early DIP.

Respiratory bronchiolitis

  • No interstitial lung disease.

RBILD

General

  • Respiratory bronchiolitis interstitial lung disease.

Histology

Features:[31]

  • Brown pigmented airspace macrophages - smoker's macrophages.
  • Inflammation of the terminal bronchioles.

Note:

  • The histologic features of RBILD may be present peri-tumoural.

DIP

  • Desquamative interstitial pneumonia.
  • Thought to be advanced RBILD.

Histology

  • Brown pigmented airspace macrophages - smoker's macrophages.
  • Architecture preserved; "linear fibrosis".

Notes:

  • Some fields of view may be indistinguishable from RBILD.
  • Amiodarone toxicity, fibrotic NSIP - may appear similar.

Eosinophilic granuloma of lung

  • Assoc. with smoking.

Radiology

  • Upper lung zones.

Histology

  • Cellular peribronchiolar nodules with:
    • Eosinophils - may be rare.
    • Langerhans cells.
    • Smoker's macrophages (brown pigmented airspace macrophages).
    • Chronic inflammatory cells (lymphocytes).

Hypersensitivity pneumonitis

  • AKA extrinsic allergic alveolitis
  • Exposure to stuffs... e.g. moldy hay - Farmer's lung, atypical mycobacteria - hot tub lung.

IHC

Nodules postive for:

  • S-100.
  • CD1a.

Miscellaneous diseases

Lymphangioleiomyomatosis

General

  • Abbreviated LAM.
  • Clinical: dyspnea, recurrent pneumothorax.
  • May be an indication for lung transplantation.

Epidemiology

Radiology

  • Bullae/thin walled cysts - distributed in all lung fields.
  • Lymphadenopathy.

Radiologic DDx (of cysts):

  • Eosinophilic granuloma (assoc. with smoking).
  • Interstitial pulmonary fibrosis (UIP).
  • Emphysema.

Histology

Features:[33]

  • Spindle cells with small nuclei + larger epithelioid cells with clear cytoplasm and round nuclei.
  • Cyst formation.
  • Thick arterial walls.

IHC:

  • HMB-45 +ve
  • ER +ve
  • PR +ve
  • SMA +ve

Pulmonary alveolar proteinosis

  • Abbreviated PAP.
  • Associated with smoking - particularily in men.[34]

Pathophysiology:

  • GM-CSF (granulocyte-macrophage colony stimulating factor) signaling in macrophages/lack of GM-CSF.
    • GM-CSF is required by alveolar macrophages to clear surfactant.

Classification:[34]

  1. Congenital:
      • Abnormal surfactant.
      • GM-CSF receptor defect.
  2. Secondary:
    • Infections.
    • Haematologic malignancy.
  3. Acquired:
    • Dusts - interfere with macrophage function.

Clinical:

  • Dyspnea & cough - gradual onset.

Radiology

Histology

  • Crap in alveoli.
  • "Dense bodies" - dead macrophages ("Chatter" in the alveoli).
    • Edema - has pink stuff in the alveoli like PAP but no dense bodies.

DDx - may mimic:

  • Edema.
  • Pneumocystis.

Drug reactions

  • Effects are often non-specific.

Website: http://www.pneumotox.com

Pulmonary hypertension

General classification:

  • Primary, i.e. primary pulmonary hypertension, or
  • Secondary, e.g. due to congenital heart disease (like ventricular septal defect), interstitial pulmonary fibrosis.

Non-secondary pulmonary hypertension

Causes:[35]

  • Primary pulmonary hypertension.
  • Pulmonary embolic disease (thromboembolism, and non-thrombotic embolism).
  • Pulmonary capillary haemangiomatosis (PCH).
  • Pulmonary veno-occlusive disease (PVOD).

Notes:

  • Some people consider PCH and PVOD to the be same thing.[36]
    • Both have a poor prognosis.
    • Clinically they present the same way.
  • PVOD is based on case reports - it is extremely rare.[37]

Primary pulmonary hypertension

  • AKA pulmonary plexogenic arteriopathy.[38]
  • Like chronic pulmonary hypertension due to congenital heart disease but without the congenital heart disease.[38]
    • Classified by Heath-Edwards classification (see below) into six grades.

Pulmonary veno-occlusive disease (PVOD)

Features:[39]

  • Clinical - gradual dyspnea +/- non-productive cough, +/- clubbing.
  • Thrombosis - small veins & venules, particularily at the interlobular septae.
  • Associated with mild homogenous peripheral interstitial fibrosis.

DDx: chronic interstitial pneumonia.

Pulmonary capillary hemangiomatosis (PCH)

General:

  • First reported in 1978 by Wagenvoort et al..[40]

Features:

  • Proliferating and invasive capillaries.[41]
  • Demonstrated by CD34 immunostaining.[36]
  • Dilated capillaries[42][43] - key feature.

DDx:

  • Passive congestion (PC).
    • Differentiated by fact that PCH has multiple channels in alveolar wall (PC has only one).

Chronic pulmonary hypertension due to congenital heart disease

  • Graded using the Heath-Edwards system.[44]
  • A reason for open lung biopsy in children.[45]

Heath-Edwards classification

Definition:[44]

  • Six grades - based on intimal reaction and media of arteries and arterioles:
    • Grade 1:
      • Intima: no intimal reaction.
      • Media: hypertrophied.
    • Grade 2:
      • Intima: cellular intimal reaction.
      • Media: hypertrophied.
    • Grade 3:
      • Intima: fibrous & fibroelastic reaction + cellular intimal reaction.
      • Media: hypertrophy +/- generalized dilation.
    • Grade 4:
      • Intima: "plexiform lesions" + fibrous & fibroelastic reaction, + cellular intimal reaction.
          • Plexiform lesions = multiple channels that are dilated, assoc. with loss of elastic laminae; thought to arise at branch points due to aberant WSS.[46]
      • Media: generalized dilation +/- local "dilation lesions".
      • Micrographs: Plexiform lesions (ucsf.edu), Plexiform lesions (pvrireview.org).
    • Grade 5:
      • Intima: as in Grade 4.
      • Media: generalized dilation + local "dilation lesions" + pulmonary hemosiderosis.
    • Grade 6:
      • Intima: as in Grade 4.
      • Media: generalized dilation + local "dilation lesions" + pulmonary hemosiderosis + necrotizing arteritis.

Notes:

Eosinophilic pneumonia

Specific entities:[47]

  • Churg-Strauss syndrome.
  • Acute eosinophilic pneumonia.
  • Chronic eosinophilic pneumonia.
  • Eosinophilic granuloma (pulmonary histiocytosis X, Langerhans cell granulomatosis).

Entities which may have eosinophilia as prominent feature:

  • AIDS.
  • Lymphoma.
  • Collagen vascular disease.

Churg-Strauss syndrome

Features GAFE:

  • Granulomata.
  • Asthma.
  • Fever.
  • Eosinophilia.

General

  • AKA allergic granulomatous angiitis.[48]
  • Small vessel vasculitis.
  • Similar to Wegener's granulomatosis (classically c-ANCA +ve) and microscopic polyangiitis (a form of polyarteritis nodosa).[49]

See also

References

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  2. ↑ Klatt. AOP P.102.
  3. ↑ Klatt. AOP P.110.
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  13. ↑ TN05 R13.
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  24. ↑ http://www.epler.com/IPFWhat%27sIPFDiseaseInformation2.htm
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  26. ↑ H. 8 July, 2009.
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