Pulmonary eosinophilia is an uncommon problem in lung transplant recipients. We report the unique occurrence of two cases of pulmonary eosinophilia in pulmonary allografts for sarcoidosis. Both patients rapidly acquired bronchiolitis obliterans syndrome (BOS) after resolution of pulmonary eosinophilia. It is known that peripheral eosinophilia is a marker for pulmonary allograft rejection, but i...

BACKGROUND Many patients who receive lung transplantation (LT) operations develop varying degrees of bronchiolitis obliterans (BO) after the surgeries. Epithelial-mesenchymal transition (EMT) is considered to be related to the process of bronchiolitis obliterans. In this study we simulated the pathological process of post-lung transplantation bronchiolitis obliterans, and explored the correlati...

OBJECTIVE To evaluate the overall health-related quality of life in patients with bronchiolitis obliterans. METHODS Participants with a diagnosis of post-infectious bronchiolitis obliterans (PIBO), who were being followed-up at two specialized outpatient clinics of Pediatric Pulmonology in Porto Alegre, Brazil, and controls aged between 8 and 17 years, of both genders, were included in the st...

A 34-year-old woman visited the hospital suffering from enanthema of the tongue, hair loss, and nonproductive cough. Corticosteroid administration slightly resolved the enanthema and hair loss, but not the nonproductive cough. She was transferred to another hospital for the resection of a retroperitoneal mass, which was histopathologically diagnosed as unicentric, hyaline vascular type Castlema...

COMMUNICATIONSTO THE EDITOR 615 misdiagnosed as diffuse alveolar damage or fibrosing alveolitis. Dr. Carrington has re-reviewed the slides and agrees that this is an example of eosinophilic pneumonia with an unusual degree of bronchiolitis obliterans. The patient has also been included in another report4 as an example of acute fibrosing alveolitis. It is recognized that patients with rheumatoid...