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01.03.2019 | Case Report
Pulmonary capillary hemangiomatosis diagnosed by pathology of explanted lungs: a unique etiology serves as a key of clinical diagnosis
verfasst von:
Hironobu Wada, Takahiro Nakajima, Hidemi Suzuki, Rie Anazawa, Tomoharu Narita, Jiro Terada, Shigetoshi Yoshida, Koichiro Tatsumi, Yukio Nakatani, Ichiro Yoshino
Erschienen in:
General Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery
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Ausgabe 3/2019
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Abstract
A 27-year-old female patient had presented progressing exertional dyspnea due to pulmonary hypertension. Chest CT revealed diffusely spread patchy ground-glass opacities sparing subpleural parenchymal areas suggesting the diagnosis of pulmonary veno-occlusive disease (PVOD). Despite the diagnosis of PVOD, she was somehow managed by a repetitive escalation of the epoprostenol dose and oxygen supply during the 12-month waiting period until successful bilateral lung transplantation was performed. Pathology demonstrated capillary proliferation in alveolar septae with scarce lesions of narrowed and/or occluded postcapillary small veins, leading to the final diagnosis of pulmonary capillary hemangiomatosis (PCH), not PVOD. We herein present a case of PCH diagnosed after lung transplantation with a focus on its etiology and a key to clinical diagnosis.