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Chest, Vol 88, 265-269, Copyright © 1985 by American College of Chest Physicians

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Lupus lung

LR Miller, SD Greenberg and JW McLarty

The morphologic findings from 18 autopsy lungs of systemic lupus erythematosus were studied. Each case revealed varying degrees of pleuropulmonary disease. A universal feature was visceral pleural thickening, while findings present in more than one half of the cases included pulmonary congestion (17/18) and edema (15/18), pleural adhesions (11/18) and pleural effusions (10/18) and intraalveolar hemorrhage (10/18). Also seen were bronchopneumonia (9/18), interstitial fibrosis (6/18), cytomegalovirus infection (3/18), interstitial pneumonitis (2/18), hyaline membranes (2/18), and acute vasculitis (1/18) and pleuritis (1/18). These results, together with those of previously reported studies of lupus lung, establish that although certain characteristic pleuropulmonary disease processes are frequently found at autopsy, none is a highly specific marker for the disease.


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