Diffuse Parenchymal Lung Disease Flashcards
This is the pulmonary alveolar and capillary endothelium and the spaces between the perivascular and perilymphatic tissues. Centrally, it involves the peribronchiolar and peribronchial tissues.
Parenchyma
Which of the following are “major” idiopathic intersititial pneumonias?
IPF, LIP, NSIP, RBILD, PPFE, DIP, COP, AIP
IPF NSIP RBILD DIP COP AIP
What is the gold standard imaging for DPLD?
HRCT
True/False: bronchoscopy is indicated for all establishment of diagnosis for DPLD.
FALSE
It’s useful to exlude other infection, DAH, and eosinophilia
What WBC cell line is increased on BAL in NSIP?
BAL usually shows >20% lymphocytes
There is usually a mixed pattern of WBCs on BAL in COP, but what happens to the CD4/CD8 ratio?
Usually decreased
BAL showing >5% CD1a-positive cells is diagnostic of what DPLD on BAL?
Pulmonary Langerhans cell histiocytosis
BAL showing eosinophilia (>20-25%) is seen in what DPLD?
Acute and chronic eosinophilic pneumonia
What is the gold standard for diagnosing most IIP?
VATS surgical lung biopsy
True/False: UIP is seen only on pathology in patients with IPF
False
Can be seen in connective tissue diseases, asbestosis, drug-induced lung disease, and environmental and occupational exposure
Median survival of IPF after diagnosis?
3-5 years
Where is the fibrosis on CT in IPF?
Basilar and peripheral fibrosis, microscopic subpleural and paraseptal fibrosis
Also see some honeycoming
True/False: this patient needs a surgical lung biopsy for the diagnosis of IPF.
65 y/o presents with dyspnea. CT shows fibrosis in subpleural site, basilar predominancy, reticular abnormalities, and honeycoming
FALSE
This pattern is classic for IPF, therefore no Bx needed
True/False:
There are associations between IPF and history of smoking, GERD, and occupational/environmental exposures
TRUE
FVC and DLCO cutoffs for lung transplant listing in IPF?
FVC < 60% predicted
DLCO < 40% predicted
Which one is typically steroid responsive - NSIP or IPF?
NSIP
This form of NSIP shows mild to moderate intersitial chronic inflammation, type II pneumocyte hyperplasia in areas of inflammation
Cellular NSIP
This form of NSIP has dense or loose interstitial fibrosis with uniform appearance, lung architexture is frequently preserved, and there are absence of fibroblastic foci
Fibrotic NSIP
Which is more steroid responsive and has a better prognosis, fibrotic or cellular NSIP?
Cellular NSIP
What are the known
genetic associations with
pulmonary fibrosis?
Mutations in hTERT and hTR are risk factors for pulmonary fibrosis underlying the inheritance in 8–15% of familial cases. In these families, IPF is inherited as an autosomal dominant trait with agedependent penetrance.
What is seen on CT for NSIP?
Diffuse GGO’s
Reticular opacities
Traction bronchiectasis
NO honeycoming
This medication used in the treatment of NSIP has the following side effects:
Hyperglycemia, HTN, insomnia
Glucocorticoids
This medication used in the treatment of NSIP has the following side effects:
GI upset, abnormal LFTs
Azathioprine
This medication used in the treatment of NSIP has the following side effects:
GI upset, abnormal LFTs, leukopenia
Mycophenolate mofetil
This medication used in the treatment of NSIP has the following side effects:
Bladder cancer, neutropenia
Cyclophosphamide
This form of DPLD is believed to follow an inciting injury that causes chronic lung inflammation, buds of intra-alveolar granulation tissue, this causes alveolar epithelial injury with cell death and denudation of basal laminae. Fibroblasts then deposit matrix in layers creating appearance intra-alveolar buds.
COP/BOOP
BOOP is a way better name. Why did they change that.
So what is seen on histopathology in COP?
Intra-alveolar buds of granulation tissue made of myofibroblasts, fibroblasts, and loose connective tissue in similar age
What is seen on CT scans in COP?
Multiple migratory patchy alveolar infiltrates (GGO’s or consolidation that are preipheral/basilar, can also see air bronchograms
True/False: most patients need a surgical lung biopsy for the diagnosis of COP
TRUE
Have to r/o other conditions, and TBBx are less reliable because of the patchy nature of the disease
Mainstay of treatment for COP?
Steroids, usually need long course (6-12 months)
This form of DPLD is rapidly progressive, can have viral prodrome, similar to ARDS but without a specific cause
AIP (Hamman Rich Syndrome)
What is seen on biopsy of AIP?
Diffuse alveolar damage
What are the 2 stages of AIP?
Initially there is edema, hyaline membranes, and microbascular thrombi –> loose organizing fibrosis with alveolar septa and type II pneumocytes
What is done to confirm the diagnosis of AIP?
Sugical lung biopsy - shows DAD
Treatment of AIP?
Thoughts and prayers
This DPLD is characterized by interstitial process in smokers and lung biopsy shows bronchiolitis
RBILD
Which of the following characteristic(s) is seen on lung biopsy of RBILD:
- Fibrosis
- Pigmented alveolar macrophages in and around the respiratory bronchioles and surrounding alveoli
- Interstitial inflammation
- Germinal centers
Pigmented alveolar macrophages in and around the respiratory bronchioles and surrounding alveoli
What is seen on CT for RBILD?
Bronchial wall thickening
Fine centrilobular nodules
Bilateral patchy GGO in upper and lower lung zones
Possible emphysema (these are smokers afterall)
Treatment of RBILD?
Stop that whacko tobacco
The roids dont work.
This form of DPLD on histopathology shows pigment-laden macrophages in alveolar spaces in a homogenous pattern with preserved alveolar architecture and minimal fibrosis or honeycoming
DIP
The pigment in the macrophages from the smoke
What is seen on HRCT in DIP?
peripheral GGOs in lower lung zones, no honeycombing, possible small lung cysts and emphysematous changes
What is required to establish the diagnosis of DIP?
Surgical lung Bx
Treatment of DIP?
STOP SMOKING
Roids are controversial
What connective tissue disease is associated with LIP?
Sjogrens syndrome
What % of patients die within the first 5 years after the diagnosis of LIP?
50%
What is seen on pathology in LIP?
Interstitial and bronchovascular infiltrate of small lymphocytes and plasma cells
Poorly formed nonnecrotizing granulomas with multinucleated giant cells are sometimes seen
What is seen on HRCT in LIP?
Bilateral GGOs, centrilobular nodules, patchy bronchovascular thickening, interlobular septal thickening, and thin-walled cysts
lol like everything
What’s required for diagnosis of LIP?
Surgical lung Bx
Mainstay of treatment for LIP?
Steroids
Response is variable
Name 3 smoking-related ILDs
DIP
RBILD
Langerhans cell histiocytosis
Give me the connective tissue disorder (CTD) associated with the following antibody:
dsDNA
SLE
Give me the connective tissue disorder (CTD) associated with the following antibody:
SSA
SLE, SS, myositis
Give me the connective tissue disorder (CTD) associated with the following antibody:
SSB
Sjogrens syndrome
Give me the connective tissue disorder (CTD) associated with the following antibody:
Scl-70 (topoisomerase I)
Systemic sclerosis
Give me the connective tissue disorder (CTD) associated with the following antibody:
CCP
RA
Give me the connective tissue disorder (CTD) associated with the following antibody:
RNP
MCTD
Give me the connective tissue disorder (CTD) associated with the following antibody:
Jo-1, EJ, PL7
Dermatomyositis/polymyositis/antisynthetase syndrome
This type of CTD can cause ILD, obstructive airway disease, lung nodules, or pleural involvement.
Rheumatoid arthritis (RA)
What 5 histological patterns can be seen on biopsy on RA associated ILD?
UIP (most common) COP Follicular bronchiolitis LIP DAD
As HRCT for RA associated ILD can show GGO, reticulation, bronchiectasis, and/or micronodules, what “patterns” can be seen as well?
UIP
NSIP
Bronchiolitis
COP
Treatment for RA associated ILD?
Steroids
Cytotoxic drugs (azathioprine, mycophenolate, cyclosporine, cyclophosphamide)
Biologics (TNFa inhibitors)
Lung transplant
This form of CTD can present with symptoms such as skin thickening, telangiectasias, digital nail pitting, GERD, esophageal dysmotility, and dysfunction
Systemic sclerosis (scleroderma)
What complication can occur in >15% of patients with scleroderma, which can be isolated or secondary to ILD?
Pulmonary arterial hypertension.
Elevated levels of endothelin-1 vasoconstriction, vascular endothelail cell proliferation, smooth muscle hypertrophy, and irreversible vascular remodeling in the lungs
Most common CT finding for scleroderma related ILD?
NSIP
Treatment for scleroderma related ILD?
Steroids (low dose only as high dose can cause renal crisis)
Cytotoxic drugs (cyclophophamide most common)
Lung transplant
Signs and symptoms of inflammatory myopathies (polymyositits, deermatomyositits, anti-synthetase syndrome)?
myalgias
muscle weakness
fatigue
Gottrons papules
Heliptrope rash
Mechanics hands
Most common CT findings on inflammatory myopathy associated ILD?
NSIP
Can also see UIP, COP, DAD
Inflammatory myopathy associated ILD is usually treated with steroids despite their lack of evidence. What is the most common cytotoxic medication used in this condition?
Azathioprine
What cytotoxic agent is used in inflammatory myopathy associated ILD in severe, life threatening disease?
Cyclophosphamide
Also, you can use mycophenolate, cyclosporine, methotrexate, IVIG, and rituxan
This form of CTD can present like cough, dyspnea, wheezing, chest pain, and sicca symptoms
Sjogren syndrome
What 4 patterns can be found on HRCT in Sjogren syndrome associated ILD?
NSIP
LIP
COP
UIP
Treatment for Sjogren associated ILD?
Steroids
Azathioprine
This manifestation of lupus presents with acute onset of fever, cough, dyspnea, and hypoxia that can lead to respiratory failure. After infection is ruled out, it’s treated with high doses of steroids.
Acute lupus pneumonitis
This manifestation of SLE is characterized by progressive hemorrhage on BAL fliuid with hemosiderine-laden macrophages.
DAH
Treatment for DAH related to SLE?
3 things
High dose steroids
Cyclophosphamide
Plasmapharesis
This manifestation of SLE associated ILD presents with dyspnea, pleuritic chest pain, small lung volume, and diaphragmatic elevation. Treated with steroids.
Shrinking lung syndrome
This manifestation of SLE associated ILD is seen in older men with insidious onset of cough and dyspnea. Treated with steroids and steroid-sparing agents (azathioprine, MMF). Cyclophosphamide reserved foir refractory cases
Chronic ILD
This form of CTD occurs in white younger smokers, presents with cough and dyspnea, secondary PTX (10-15%), fevers, weight loss, malaise, anorexia, pulmonary HTN.
Pulmonary Langerhans Cell Histiocytosis
AKA histiocytosis X, pulmonary Langerhans granulomatosis, or pulmonary eosinophilic granuloma
Staining for which 2 antigens and protein is seen in the pathology for Langerhans?
CD1a antigen
S-100 protein
What are the names of the intracellular inclusions seen on electron microscopy in Langerhans?
Birbeck granules
CT findings for Langerhans?
Nodules and thin-walled cysts, mainly in the upper lung zones
Other than obviously to stop smoking, which things are used in severe/refractory Langerhans?
Steroids
Lung transplant
This form of ILD affects premenopausal women, characterized by hamartomatous proliferation of atypical smooth muscles along lymphatics in the lung, thorax, abdomen, and pelvis
LAM
What genetic condition is associated with LAM?
Hint: multisystem genetic disorder caused by mutation of the TSC1 or TSC2 gene
Tuberous sclerosis
True/False: recurrent pneumothorax is common in LAM
TRUE
Can affect 50-80% of patients
LAM cells come in 2 flavors: myofibroblast-like spindle-shaped cells and epithelioid-like polygonal cells. What 2 melanola-associated proteins do both cells express?
HMB-45
CD63
Which cells are pathognomic of pulmonary Langerhans cell histiocytosis on bronchoalveolar lavage?
BAL showing > 5% CD1a- positive cells is virtually diagnostic of pulmonary Langerhans cell histiocytosis.
HRCT findings for LAM?
Multiple thin-walled cysts with no specific region.
NO NODULES ARE SEEN (unlike Langerhans)
Which patients do not need a surgical lung biopsy for the diagnosis of LAM?
If they have characteristic features, as in ANY of the following:
Renal angiomyolipoma
Chronic chylous ascites with abdominal lymphadenopathy
Characteristic histopathologic findings on lymph node biopsy
As estrogen is involved in the pathogenesis for LAM, recommendation is to avoid pregnancy or exogenous estrogen. However, what medication is used in LAM?
Sirolimus (mTOR inhibitor)
TRUE/FALSE: corticosteroids can be used in the treatment for LAM
FALSE
The pathogenesis of this condition is from acute cigarette smoke exposure with other proallergic allergenic exposure leads to the release of inflmmatory cytokines, leading to massice recruitment and activation of eosinophils in lungs
Acute eosinophilic pneumonia (AEP)
HRCT findings for AEP?
Patchy alveolar GGOs, interlobular thickening, and pleural effusions
What % of eosinophils do you need to have on BAL in AEP in the setting of normal peripheral eosinophils?
> 20-25%
Treatment for AEP?
Smoking cessation and high doses of corticosteroids improves symptoms in first 24-48 hours
Keep on therapy for 2-4 weeks
This ILD is characterized by affecting middle-aged women, cough, dyspnea, fever, night sweats, asthma, elevated IgE, elevated peripheral eosinophilia.
Chronic Eosinophilic Pneumonia (CEP)
CXR findings for CEP?
Bilateral diffuse PERIPHERAL infiltrates
Though BAL will show eosinophilia in CEP, what will TBBx show?
Eosinophilic microabscesses
Low-grade vasculitis
Interstitial fibrosis
Treatment for CEP?
Steroids with a very slow taper
This condition is a chronic, multisystem disease with unknown etiology that is characterized by noncaseating granulomas
Sarcoidosis.
This mimicker of sarcoidosis is characterized by the following:
Patient works with circuit boards/electronics, similar findings on CXR, diagnosis made by lymph transfer test on BAL
Berylliosis
This mimicker of sarcoidosis is characterized by the following:
Medication used to treat HCV and other conditions that promotes granuloma formation
Interferon therapy
Responders to what national terrorist event have a high rate of pulmonary sarcoidosis?
World trade center responders
True/False: sarcoidosis is more prevalent in younger (<40 y/o) than older
TRUE
True/False: sarcoidosis affects women more than men
TRUE
True/False: sarcodiosis has the highest prevalence in Sweden, Denmark, and among African Americans
TRUE
True/False: sarcoidosis has no genetic links
FALSE
6% heredity in whites
17% in African americans
No specific gene, but histocompatability complex on chromosome 6p most studied
True/False: smoking is protective in sarcoidosis
TRUE
True/False: HLA DQB1*0201 is associated with favorable outcomes in sarcoidosis
TRUE
Describe stage 1, 2, 3, and 4 on imaging for sarcoidosis
1- hilar lymphadeopathy
2- adenopathy with lung disease
3- lung disease only
4- fibrosis and honeycoming
What form of sarcoidosis has the highest rate of spontaneous remission?
Nodular sarcoidosis
What are the 3 components to Lofgren syndrome?
Erythema nodosum
Hilar LAD
Arthralgias
Outcomes for Lofgren syndrome?
Resolves in 2 years in >90% of patients
Which ethnicities does the following extrathoracic forms of sarcoidosis affect:
Chronic uveitis
Lupus pernio
Erythema nodosum
Cardiac and ocular disease
Chronic uveitis - african americans
Lupus pernio - puerto ricans
Erythema nodosum- europeans
Cardiac and ocular disease - japanese
PFT findings in sarcoidosis?
Obstruction or restriction
Methacholine often positive
FVC and DLCO are most predictive long-term markers of disease
What is the role for ACE levels in sarcoidosis?
Not specific for the diagnosis but can be used for disease monitoring
What is the CD4:CD8 in sarcoidosis?
Bonus: sensitivity, specificity, PPV, and NPV
> 3.5
Sensitivity 53%, specificity of 94%, PPV 76%, NPV 85%
What is the normal distribution of granulomas in the lung?
Near or within the connective tissue sheath of bronchioles and subpleural or perilobular spaces (lymphangitis distrubution)