Idiopathic Pulmonary Hemosiderosis Associated with Emphysematous Change in an Adult Who Underwent Lung Transplantation

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...

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Published in:Internal Medicine 2021/01/01, Vol.60(1), pp.117-122
Main Authors: Gocho, Kyoko, Sato, Kenya, Imasaka, Keisuke, Hamanaka, Nobuyuki, Takahashi, Miki, Shimizu, Kunihiko, Takemura, Tamiko
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Adult
Alveoli
Biopsy
Case Report
Cysts
Ehlers-Danlos syndrome
Emphysema
emphysematous change
Female
Hemosiderosis
Hemosiderosis - complications
Hemosiderosis - diagnosis
Hemosiderosis, Pulmonary
Humans
idiopathic pulmonary hemosiderosis
Internal medicine
Lung
Lung Diseases - complications
Lung Diseases - diagnostic imaging
Lung transplantation
Lung Transplantation - adverse effects
Middle Aged
peribronchiol hemosiderosis
Septum
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Summary: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.
ISSN:0918-2918
1349-7235
DOI:10.2169/internalmedicine.5142-20