Gocho K, Sato K, Imasaka K, Hamanaka N, Takahashi M, Shimizu K, Takemura T. Idiopathic Pulmonary Hemosiderosis Associated with Emphysematous Change in an Adult Who Underwent Lung Transplantation.
Intern Med 2021;
60:117-122. [PMID:
32830179 PMCID:
PMC7835464 DOI:
10.2169/internalmedicine.5142-20]
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Abstract
Idiopathic pulmonary hemosiderosis is characterized by repeated alveolar hemorrhaging. We herein report a 52-year-old Japanese woman who had shortness of breath, diffuse small nodules, thin-walled cysts, and bronchiolectasis. A surgical lung biopsy revealed peribronchial hemosiderosis, centrilobular emphysema, and fragile elastic fibers of the alveolar septa and small vessels. She ultimately underwent living-donor lung transplantation five years after the first visit.
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