Last. Ganesh Raghu(University of Washington Medical Center)H-Index: 78
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Rationale Usual interstitial pneumonia (UIP) is the defining morphology of idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis (IPF). Guidelines for IPF diagnosis conditionally recommend surgical lung biopsy (SLB) for histopathology diagnosis of UIP when radiology and clinical context are not definitive. A 'molecular diagnosis of UIP' in transbronchial lung biopsy (TBBx), the Envisia Genomic Classifier, accurately predicted histopathologic UIP. Objectives We evaluated the combined accuracy of the Envisia Genomic Clas...
Last. Fabien Maldonado(VUMC: Vanderbilt University Medical Center)H-Index: 29
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Interstitial lung diseases are a heterogenous group of disorders that are often difficult to diagnose precisely. Clinical, laboratory, radiographic, and histologic information may be needed to arrive at the correct diagnosis. The multidisciplinary discussion has been proven to be useful in this patient group. Transbronchial cryobiopsy has become a popular method for obtaining tissue samples. Over the course of the last decade, there has been a significant amount of research assessing the feasibi...
INTRODUCTION Workers' exposure to metalworking fluid (MWF) has been associated with respiratory disease. As part of a public health investigation of a manufacturing facility, we performed paired environmental and human sampling to evaluate cross-pollination of microbes between environment and host and possible effects on lung pathology present among workers. METHODS Workplace environmental microbiota was evaluated in air and MWF samples. Human microbiota was evaluated in lung tissue samples from...
Introduction The accurate diagnosis of individual interstitial lung diseases (ILD) is often challenging, but is a critical determinant of appropriate management. If a diagnosis cannot be made after multidisciplinary team discussion (MDTD), surgical lung biopsy is the current recommended tissue sampling technique according to the most recent guidelines. Transbronchial lung cryobiopsy (TBLC) has been proposed as an alternative to surgical lung biopsy. Methods This prospective, multicentre, interna...
CONTEXT.— Accurate diagnosis of idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis (IPF) requires multidisciplinary diagnosis that includes clinical, radiologic, and often pathologic assessment. In 2018, the American Thoracic Society, European Respiratory Society, Japanese Respiratory Society, and the Latin American Thoracic Society (ATS/ERS/JRS/ALAT) and the Fleischner Society each published guidelines for the diagnosis of IPF, which include criteria for 4 categories of confidence of a histologic usual interstitial...
Context.— Transbronchial cryobiopsy is an emerging procedure to obtain lung tissue for diagnosis of interstitial lung disease and has gained popularity because it is less invasive and has a lower r...
Last. James C. Hogg(UBC: University of British Columbia)H-Index: 91
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Idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis (IPF) is a fibrotic disease with the histology of usual interstitial pneumonia (UIP). Although the pathologist's visual inspection is central in histologic assessments, three-dimensional microcomputed tomography (microCT) assessment may complement the pathologist's scoring. We examined associations between the histopathologic features of UIP and IPF in explanted lungs and quantitative microCT measurements, including alveolar surface density, total lung volume taken ...
Summary Background Transbronchial lung cryobiopsy (TBLC) has been introduced recently in the diagnosis of interstitial lung diseases. We aimed to evaluate the prognostic significance of the distinction between idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis and other interstitial lung diseases with the use of TBLC data in multidisciplinary team (MDT) diagnosis. Methods In this single-centre, retrospective, investigator-initiated comparative study, we evaluated consecutive patients without a definite usual interst...