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Ensor CR, Yousem SA, Marrari M, Morrell MR, Mangiola M, Pilewski JM, D'Cunha J, Wisniewski SR, Venkataramanan R, Zeevi A, McDyer JF. Proteasome Inhibitor Carfilzomib-Based Therapy for Antibody-Mediated Rejection of the Pulmonary Allograft: Use and Short-Term Findings. Am J Transplant 2017; 17:1380-1388. [PMID: 28173620 DOI: 10.1111/ajt.14222] [Citation(s) in RCA: 53] [Impact Index Per Article: 7.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/20/2016] [Revised: 01/08/2017] [Accepted: 01/29/2017] [Indexed: 01/25/2023]
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We present this observational study of lung transplant recipients (LTR) treated with carfilzomib (CFZ)-based therapy for antibody-mediated rejection (AMR) of the lung. Patients were considered responders to CFZ if complement-1q (C1q)-fixing ability of their immunodominant (ID) donor-specific anti-human leukocyte antibody (DSA) was suppressed after treatment. Treatment consisted of CFZ plus plasma exchange and immunoglobulins. Fourteen LTRs underwent CFZ for 20 ID DSA AMR. Ten (71.4%) of LTRs responded to CFZ. DSA IgG mean fluorescence intensity (MFI) fell from 7664 (IQR 3230-11 874) to 1878 (653-7791) after therapy (p = 0.001) and to 1400 (850-8287) 2 weeks later (p = 0.001). DSA C1q MFI fell from 3596 (IQR 714-14 405) to <30 after therapy (p = 0.01) and <30 2 weeks later (p = 0.02). Forced expiratory volume in 1s ( FEV1 ) fell from mean 2.11 L pre-AMR to 1.92 L at AMR (p = 0.04). FEV1 was unchanged after CFZ (1.91 L) and subsequently rose to a maximum of 2.13 L (p = 0.01). Mean forced expiratory flow during mid forced vital capacity (25-75) (FEF25-75 ) fell from mean 2.5 L pre-AMR to 1.95 L at AMR (p = 0.01). FEF25-75 rose after CFZ to 2.54 L and reached a maximum of 2.91 L (p = 0.01). Responders had less chronic lung allograft dysfunction or progression versus nonresponders (25% vs. 83%, p = 0.04). No deaths occurred within 120 days and 7 patients died post CFZ therapy of allograft failure. Larger prospective interventional studies are needed to further describe the benefit of CFZ-based therapy for pulmonary AMR.
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- C R Ensor
- School of Pharmacy, Department of Pharmacy and Therapeutics, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA.,School of Medicine, Division of Pulmonary Allergy and Critical Care Medicine, Department of Medicine, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA
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- Department of Pathology, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA
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- Department of Pathology, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA
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- School of Medicine, Division of Pulmonary Allergy and Critical Care Medicine, Department of Medicine, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA
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- Department of Pathology, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA
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- School of Medicine, Division of Pulmonary Allergy and Critical Care Medicine, Department of Medicine, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA
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- Division of Cardiothoracic Surgery, Department of Surgery, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA
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- Graduate School of Public Health, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA
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- Department of Pathology, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA.,Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA
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- Department of Pathology, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA
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- School of Medicine, Division of Pulmonary Allergy and Critical Care Medicine, Department of Medicine, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA
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Clarke MR, Landreneau RJ, Resnick NM, Crowley R, Dougherty GJ, Cooper DL, Yousem SA. Prognostic significance of CD44 expression in adenocarcinoma of the lung. Mol Pathol 2010; 48:M200-4. [PMID: 16696007 PMCID: PMC407963 DOI: 10.1136/mp.48.4.m200] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/13/2023]
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Aims-To determine whether expression of CD44 in neoplasia is associated with tumour grade, stage and prognosis.Methods-The immunohistochemical expression of CD44 was evaluated using the mouse antihuman monoclonal antibody 3G12 which recognises regions shared by all CD44 isoforms to determine whether expression in formalin fixed, paraffin wax embedded tissue correlates with tumour grade, stage or survival in adenocarcinoma of the lung. Thirty one adenocarcinomas of the lung, 16 T2N0 and 15 T2N1, and their nodal metastases were studied.Results-Of the 31 tumours, 25 were positive for the CD44 antigen. CD44 expression correlated with tumour grade, in that intense staining was seen only in moderately and/or poorly differentiated tumours. CD44 did not correlate with nodal status, tumour size, pleural invasion, angiolymphatic invasion, or host inflammatory response, but did correlate with survival. A median survival of 46 months was observed in patients with moderate to strong CD44 expression compared with 24 months for those with no or weak expression. Nine patients were alive without evidence of disease at a median follow up of 61 months. Six (66%) of these nine patients had strong CD44 expression. This contrasts with strong expression in only three (17%) of the 17 patients dying with a median survival of 28 months.Conclusion-In primary adenocarcinoma of the lung loss of CD44 expression is associated with less favorable outcome and may indicate a more aggressive neoplasm. CD44 may be a useful prognostic marker in lung carcinoma.
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- M R Clarke
- Department of Pathology, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, 200 Lothrop Street, Pittsburgh, 15232-2582 PA, USA
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Ionescu DN, Girnita AL, Zeevi A, Duquesnoy R, Pilewski J, Johnson B, Studer S, McCurry KR, Yousem SA. C4d deposition in lung allografts is associated with circulating anti-HLA alloantibody. Transpl Immunol 2005; 15:63-8. [PMID: 16223674 DOI: 10.1016/j.trim.2005.05.001] [Citation(s) in RCA: 62] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/02/2005] [Accepted: 05/09/2005] [Indexed: 12/22/2022]
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UNLABELLED The complement activation demonstrated by vascular C4d deposition is used to diagnose antibody-mediated rejection (AMR) in renal allografts, but remains controversial in lung transplantation (LTX). METHODS C4d deposition was assessed by immunohistochemistry in 192 lung transplant biopsies from 32 patients. ELISA analysis was performed on 415 serum samples in those 32 temporally and rejection-grade matched LTX patients; 16 patients developed HLA-Ab, while the other 16 patients remained negative. The specificity of C4d staining was further compared in 18 additional LTX patients without HLA-Ab or acute cellular rejection (ACR), but in the presence of CMV-pneumonitis or reperfusion injury. RESULTS Specific subendothelial C4d deposition was seen in 5 of 16 (31%) patients with HLA-Ab and was absent in 16 patients without HLA-Ab (p<0.05). All patients with specific C4d deposition exhibited donor-specific HLA-Ab. There were 13 patients with bronchiolitis obliterans syndrome in the group of 16 HLA-Ab positive patients, versus 2/16 in ELISA-negative patients (p<0.005). One of 7 patients with CMV pneumonitis and 2 of 11 patients with reperfusion injury also showed C4d positivity (not statistically significant). CONCLUSIONS In this study, specific subendothelial C4d deposition was a marker for the involvement of HLA-Ab in lung allograft rejection. The patchy nature, low sensitivity, and specificity of C4d staining might limit clinical use in protocol biopsies. However, in patients with decreasing pulmonary function, refractory ACR and/or HLA-Ab, specific C4d deposition may serve as a marker of coexistent AMR.
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Levitt ML, Kassem B, Gooding WE, Miketic LM, Landreneau RJ, Ferson PF, Keenan R, Yousem SA, Lindberg CA, Trenn MR, Ponas RS, Tarasoff P, Sabatine JM, Friberg D, Whiteside TL. Phase I study of gemcitabine given weekly as a short infusion for non-small cell lung cancer: results and possible immune system-related mechanisms. Lung Cancer 2004; 43:335-44. [PMID: 15165093 DOI: 10.1016/j.lungcan.2003.09.011] [Citation(s) in RCA: 24] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/26/2003] [Revised: 09/04/2003] [Accepted: 09/11/2003] [Indexed: 10/26/2022]
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PURPOSE To define the maximum tolerated dose (MTD) and the nature of the toxicities associated with gemcitabine given as a short infusion to patients with non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC). Secondary objectives were to monitor immunologic response, clinical response, and survival. PATIENTS AND METHODS Thirty-two patients diagnosed with advanced inoperable NSCLC and performance status of 0 or 1 participated in this study. Patients consisted of 22 males and 10 females whose median age was 62 years (range 32-79). Gemcitabine was administered as a 30 min infusion once weekly for 3 weeks followed by 1 week of rest. Patients were enrolled at six gemcitabine dose levels ranging from 1000 to 3500 mg/m2. Patients completed a median of four cycles (range 1-17). Responses were evaluated after every two cycles. RESULTS Toxicity was evaluated in all 32 patients. The MTD was not reached as gemcitabine was well tolerated at all dose levels. Grade 4 toxicity occurred in three (9%) patients: pulmonary and lymphocytopenia in one patient each, and both neurocortical and cardiac in one patient. Grade 3 toxicity was found in a total of 20 (63%) patients: pulmonary in 10 (31%) patients; pain in 6 (19%) patients; liver toxicity in 6 (19%) patients; leukopenia and lymphocytopenia in 5 (16%) patients each; anemia, nausea, and cardiac toxicity in 3 (9%) patients each; proteinuria and infection in 2 (6%) patients each; and hemorrhage in 1 (3%) patient. Of the 29 patients evaluable for response, seven objective responses were achieved: six at the 2200 mg/m2 dose level and one at the 2800 mg/m2 dose level. The distribution of responses differed significantly by dose (P = 0.0124 by the exact chi-square test for independence). The overall response rate was 24.1% (95% CI, 10.3-43.5%). At 6 h post-infusion, there was a significant increase in spontaneous tumor necrosis factor (TNF) release and stimulated interleukin (IL)-2 production, and significant decreases in total white blood cell and lymphocyte counts (CD3+, CD8+, and CD16+ lymphocytes) and resting and stimulated superoxide production by formyl-methionyl-leucyl-phenylalanine (fMLP), phorbol myristate acetate, and opsonized zymosan (OPS-Z). At 24 h post-infusion, there were significant decreases in total lymphocyte count, lymphocyte subsets (CD3+, CD4-, CD8+, CD56+, CD19+), and in resting and stimulated superoxide production by fMLP and OPS-Z. There also appeared to be an association between the levels of spontaneous TNF release and the severity of both gastrointestinal (GI) and pulmonary toxicities. CONCLUSION Gemcitabine given as a short infusion was well tolerated at the dose levels of 1000-3500 mg/m2. The MTD was not reached. Toxicities appeared to be cumulative with multiple cycles. Gemcitabine appears to have activity against NSCLC. Although there was a differential dose-response rate among dose levels, increasing the gemcitabine dose beyond 2200mg/m2 did not show increased clinical response. Gemcitabine appears to modulate the immune response, which may in turn mediate both response and toxicity, although no statistically significant correlation between immune and clinical response was detected.
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- M L Levitt
- Institute of Oncology, Sheba Medical Center, Sackler School of Medicine, Tel Aviv University, Tel Hashomer 52621, Israel.
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Reported studies show that the systemic form of Langerhans cell histiocytosis (LCH) is a clonal expansion of Langerhans cells (LC) associated with aberrant expression of several oncogenes or tumor-suppressor genes. LCH of the lung is a heterogenous group of lesions thought to be a reactive rather than neoplastic process. The histogenesis of the LCH of the lung is uncertain, and to date there are no studies investigating its underlying molecular abnormalities. We performed comparative genotypic analysis by using allelic loss (LOH) of polymorphic microsatellite markers associated with tumor suppressor genes. Fourteen cases of formalin-fixed, paraffin-embedded LCH of the lung were studied. Microdissection of a total of 26 nodules from 14 patients and paired reference lung tissue was performed under stereomicroscopic visualization. To evaluate allelic loss, we used a panel of 11 polymorphic microsatellite markers that were situated at or near tumor suppressor genes on chromosomes 1p, 1q, 3p, 5p, 9p, 17p, and 22q. The PCR products were analyzed by using capillary electrophoresis to identify germline heterozygous alleles and LOH. Allelic loss at 1 or more tumor suppressor gene loci was identified in 19 of 24 nodules. The total fractional allelic loss (FAL) ranged from 6% (1q) to 41% (22q), with a mean of 22%. The FAL in individual cases ranged from 0 (7 nodules) to 57% (1 nodule). Fifteen discordant allelic losses at 1 to 3 chromosomal loci were identified in 8 patients with multiple synchronous nodules. Our results show that LOH of tumor suppressor genes is present in the LCH of the lung, and they indicate that the putative tumor suppressor genes situated on chromosomes 9p and 22q may play a role in the development of a subset of the LCH of the lung.
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- S Dacic
- Department of Pathology, Division of Anatomic Pathology, University of Pittsburgh Medical Center, PA 15213, USA
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Yousem SA, Finkelstein SD, Swalsky PA, Bakker A, Ohori NP. Absence of jaagsiekte sheep retrovirus DNA and RNA in bronchioloalveolar and conventional human pulmonary adenocarcinoma by PCR and RT-PCR analysis. Hum Pathol 2001; 32:1039-42. [PMID: 11679936 DOI: 10.1053/hupa.2001.28249] [Citation(s) in RCA: 35] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/11/2022]
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Bronchioloalveolar adenocarcinoma (BAC) morphologically resembles sheep pulmonary adenomatosis (SPA), a contagious ovine pulmonary adenocarcinoma caused by the jaagsiekte sheep retrovirus (JSRV). Previously, positivity for JSRV by immunostaining, reverse-transcription polymerase chain reaction (RT-PCR), and Western blot was reported in most nonmucinous BACs. Our objective in this study was to analyze additional BAC subtypes and conventional adenocarcinomas (CA) to further substantiate this association. Tumor tissue was microdissected from unstained paraffin sections of 26 cases of formalin-fixed, paraffin-embedded BAC (7 mucinous, 17 nonmucinous, 2 sclerosing) and 29 cases of CA. Positive controls consisted of 2 separate paraffin blocks of known SPA. Primer sequences were derived that were capable of hybridizing to all reported strain variants of both the DNA (endogenous) and RNA (exogenous) forms of JSRV. Each sample was tested using both PCR (DNA) and RT-PCR (RNA). All BAC and CA cases were negative for JSRV. Positive controls yielded PCR products that were sequenced and precisely matched the published prototype stain of JSRV. To control for negative effects of tissue fixation, dilutions of positive control tissue were added to BAC and CA samples. Detection of JSRV was evident at 1:50 dilution. Although the possibility of a viral association with BAC cannot be excluded, this study shows that the association with JSRV is probably very weak, if present at all.
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- S A Yousem
- Department of Pathology, University of Pittsburgh Medical Center-Presbyterian University Hospital, Pittsburgh, PA 15213-2582, USA
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Thirteen cases of pulmonary apical cap (PAC), resected for the exclusion of a clinical diagnosis of lung carcinoma, were reviewed, and their distinctive morphology was described. PAC occurred in older individuals, particularly in the apices of the upper lobes, and by radiographic examination appeared as spiculated subpleural masses ranging from 0.7 to 5.2 cm in diameter. Microscopically, these subpleural scars were pyramid shaped with overlying pleural adhesions and hyaline pleural plaques. They were characterized by a dense basophilic fibrosis of the pulmonary parenchyma with air spaces filled with old, mature collagen and the underlying elastic skeleton contracted in an accordion-like fashion with reduplicated curls of elastic fibers. Scar emphysema was prominent at the periphery of these fibrous nodules. PAC should be recognized for its unique histology because its appearance in the surgical pathology laboratory will likely increase in incidence with the evolution of more sensitive pulmonary radiographic studies. A chronic ischemic etiology is favored.
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- S A Yousem
- Department of Pathology, University of Pittsburgh Medical Center-Presbyterian, Pennsylvania 15213, USA
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Pulmonary Langerhans' cell histiocytosis (LCH) is a form of Langerhans' cell disease that primarily affects smokers in the third to fifth decade. Extrapulmonary manifestations are rare. Its clinical course is typically characterized by stabilization or regression of bilateral micronodular infiltrates seen on chest radiographs; progression to honeycomb fibrosis is rare. Because the clinical course of pulmonary LCH is distinct from systemic multiorgan LCH, currently thought to be a clonal proliferative disorder, we examined the X-linked polymorphic human androgen receptor assay (HUMARA) locus to assess clonality in female patients with one or more discrete LCH cell nodules in open lung biopsies. Langerhans' cells (LCH cells) were excised from formalin-fixed, paraffin-embedded tissue by microdissection to assure a relatively pure cellular population, and studies for differential methylation patterns at the HUMARA locus were performed. Twenty-four nodules in 13 patients were evaluated. Seven (29%) were clonal and 17 (71%) were nonclonal. Of six cases with multiple discrete nodules, three (50%) showed a nonclonal LCH cell population. In one biopsy with five nodules, two nodules were clonal with one allele inactivated, one nodule was clonal with the other allele inactivated, and two nodules were nonclonal. In contrast to systemic LCH, pulmonary LCH appears to be primarily a reactive process in which nonlethal, nonmalignant clonal evolution of LCH cells may arise in the setting of nonclonal LCH cell hyperplasia. Cigarette smoking may be the stimulus for pulmonary LCH in contrast to other forms of LCH.
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- S A Yousem
- Departments of Pathology, University of Pittsburgh Medical Center, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 15213, USA
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Pulmonary inflammatory pseudotumors (IP) are rare mesenchymal proliferations that have a polymorphic histology and an unpredictable biologic behavior. The histologic spectrum of IP has led to uncertainty as to whether this tumor has a reactive or neoplastic pathogenesis. Reports of extrapulmonary IP have identified clonal chromosomal aberrations involving 2p23 in the region of the ALK gene. Using fluorescence in situ hybridization with a probe flanking the ALK gene at 2p23 and immunostaining for the ALK gene product, we studied formalin-fixed, paraffin-embedded tissues of pulmonary IP and found a subset (33%) with 2p23 aberrations. We suggest that chromosomal rearrangements and ALK immunostaining may be helpful in the diagnosis of a group of pulmonary IP and should be investigated as a potential tool for predicting their future biologic behavior. An association with anaplastic large-cell lymphoma was also observed. HUM PATHOL 32:428-433.
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- S A Yousem
- Department of Pathology, University of Pittsburgh Medical Center-Presbyterian University Hospital, Pittsburgh, PA 15213, USA
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Usual interstitial pneumonia is the most common idiopathic chronic interstitial pneumonia, characterized by a temporally heterogenous pattern of interstitial injury with interstitial mononuclear infiltrates, septal fibromyxoid nodules, and parenchymal scarring. This report details the presence of focal eosinophilic pneumonia in six cases of usual interstitial pneumonia in the absence of known causes of this reaction. The relationship of eosinophilic infiltrates in usual interstitial pneumonia with regard to pathogenesis, differential diagnosis, and prognosis is discussed.
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- S A Yousem
- University of Pittsburgh Medical Center-Presbyterian University Hospital, Department of Pathology, Pennsylvania 15213-2582, USA.
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Nodular amyloidomas (NA) of the lung are non-neoplastic inflammatory nodules containing eosinophilic amyloid deposits and a lymphoplasmacytic infiltrate. In some instances, the extensive amyloid deposits may obscure an underlying lymphoproliferative disorder. The histologic and immunohistologic features that discriminate these two differential diagnostic possibilities were studied in this series of six cases of NA and five cases of primary low-grade malignant lymphomas of lung with secondary amyloid deposits (ML). Two of lymphoma cases showed histopathologic and immunophenotypic features of B-cell chronic lymphocytic leukemia/small lymphocytic lymphoma (B-cell CLL/SLL), and three cases were low-grade B-cell lymphoma derived from mucosa associated lymphoid tissue (MALT lymphoma). Key discriminating morphologic features between NA and ML included lymphatic tracking of the cellular infiltrate (3/5 ML; 1/6 NA), pleural infiltration (3/5 ML; 0/6 NA), sheet-like masses of plasma cells (5/5 ML; 0/6 NA) and reactive follicles (4/5 ML; 1/6 NA). Lesional circumscription, vascular and bronchial destruction, lymphoepithelial lesions, and granulomas were not helpful discriminators. Immunohistochemical features indicating a dominant CD20+, CD79a+ B-cell population (5/5 ML; 0/6 NA), light chain restriction (4/5 ML; 0/6 NA), and aberrant antigen expression of CD20/CD43 (2/5 ML; 0/6 NA) were helpful. Amyloid tumors with a reactive lymphoplasmacytic infiltrate can be separated from low-grade malignant lymphomas utilizing both histologic and immunohistochemical features.
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- S Dacic
- Department of Pathology, University of Pittsburgh Medical Center and Presbyterian University Hospital, Pennsylvania 15213,USA.
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BACKGROUND Transbronchial lung biopsy (TBLB) is used for routine monitoring and diagnosing of acute cellular rejection (ACR) in the lung allograft, and yet the optimal anatomic site for lung biopsy has not been investigated. We examined our clinical data to clarify the distribution of ACR in the lung allograft monitored by TBLB. METHODS A retrospective case-series study was done reviewing the pathology files and slides of TBLB performed on lung allograft recipients. In 73 patients, transbronchial biopsies were taken from more than one lobe. RESULTS Identical grades of ACR were seen in 33 of 73 (45%) patients, and a single-grade difference in ACR was noted 34 of 73 (47%) patients. Six cases demonstrated two or more grade differences on biopsies taken from two separate lobes. Among cases with different grades of ACR, the "upper" lobes had a higher grade in 35% (14/40) and the "lower" lobes had a higher grade in 65% (26/40). CONCLUSIONS If limitations on the site for transbronchial biopsy exist, biopsies of the lower lobes appear more informative.
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- T Hasegawa
- Department of Pathology, University of Pittsburgh Medical Center, Presbyterian University Hospital, Pennsylvania 15213, USA
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BACKGROUND Nonanastomotic distal bronchial stenosis has been observed in some patients after lung transplantation. We investigated its relationship with acute cellular rejection (ACR), infection, and ischemia. METHODS Between January 1994 and December 1997, 246 lung transplantations were performed at our hospital. These cases were retrospectively reviewed and evaluated to identify those patients with nonanastomotic bronchial stenosis. RESULTS Six patients had bronchial stenosis within the grafted airway distal to the uninvolved anastomotic site. The average ACR before stenosis was 1.9 compared with 1.6 in a control group. ACR at the time of first recognition of the stenosis ranged from A2 to A3.5, with an average value of A2.9. All 6 patients demonstrated alloreactive airway inflammation before and at the time of stenosis. Four patients had evidence of ischemic damage in the perioperative period. CONCLUSIONS Segmental nonanastomotic large airway stenosis after lung transplantation should be assessed separately from anastomotic complications. Although the pathogenesis is unclear, certainly one should consider alloreactive injury, ischemic damage, and infection as individual and coercive causes.
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- T Hasegawa
- Department of Pathology, University of Pittsburgh Medical Center, Presbyterian University Hospital, Pennsylvania 15213, USA
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Finkelstein SD, Hasegawa T, Colby T, Yousem SA. 11q13 allelic imbalance discriminates pulmonary carcinoids from tumorlets. A microdissection-based genotyping approach useful in clinical practice. Am J Pathol 1999; 155:633-40. [PMID: 10433956 PMCID: PMC1866849 DOI: 10.1016/s0002-9440(10)65159-0] [Citation(s) in RCA: 46] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Accepted: 04/28/1999] [Indexed: 10/18/2022]
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Pulmonary tumorlets are minute neuroendocrine cell proliferations believed to be precursor lesions to pulmonary carcinoids. Little is known of their molecular pathogenesis because of their small size. Using tissue microdissection, we evaluated 11q13 region allelic imbalance in the pathogenesis of pulmonary tumorlet/carcinoid lesions. The int-2 gene was selected because of its chromosomal location at 11q13 in close proximity to MEN1, a tumor suppressor gene frequently mutated in familial forms of neuroendocrine cancer. Three cohorts of patients were studied: subjects with typical carcinoid tumors and coexisting tumorlets (n = 5), typical carcinoids without tumorlets (n = 6), and tumorlets alone without carcinoid lesions (n = 5). A total of 11 carcinoids and 11 tumorlets were microdissected from 4-micrometer-thick histological sections. Genotyping was designed to detect allelic imbalance of the int-2 gene and involved DNA sequencing of two closely spaced deoxynucleotide polymorphisms. Subjects shown to be informative were evaluated for allelic imbalance in tumorlet/carcinoid tissue. Eight of 11 (73%) carcinoids manifested allelic, in contrast to only one of 11 (9%) of tumorlets. Int-2 allelic imbalance was significantly associated with carcinoid tumor formation (P < 0.01). In patients having both carcinoid tumors and tumorlets, the latter showed allelic balance and were thus discordant in genotype with coexisting carcinoid excluding pathogenesis of tumorlets from intramucosal spread from carcinoid tumors. Int-2 allelic imbalance was shown to be an early event in carcinoid tumor formation by virtue of the absence of allelic imbalance for other common cancer-related gene disturbances involving 11p13 (Wilms' tumor), 3p25 (von-Hippel-Lindau), and 17p13 (p53). Demonstration of 11q13 allelic imbalance by microdissection/genotyping may be a useful discriminatory marker for pulmonary neuroendocrine neoplasia.
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- Department of Pathology, University of Pittsburgh Medical Center, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA.
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Hasegawa T, Iacono A, Yousem SA. The significance of bronchus-associated lymphoid tissue in human lung transplantation: is there an association with acute and chronic rejection? Transplantation 1999; 67:381-5. [PMID: 10030282 DOI: 10.1097/00007890-199902150-00007] [Citation(s) in RCA: 21] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/27/2022]
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BACKGROUND In animal models of acute rejection in lung allografts, bronchus-associated lymphoid tissue (BALT) plays a major role in the induction and persistence of the alloreactive response. We undertook a study of the clinical and histologic associations with BALT identified on transbronchial biopsy in human lung allograft recipients. METHODS Transbronchial biopsies of patients receiving single lung, double lung, and combined heart-lung transplantation from 1984 to 1997 at the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center were reviewed. Seventy-seven patients had transbronchial biopsies demonstrating BALT. We examined all pathologic reports and slides, and graded rejection utilizing the Revised Working Formulation for the Classification of Pulmonary Allograft Rejection. Twenty-nine of 77 patients were selected at random to evaluate the distribution of BALT lymphocyte subsets immunohistochemically. RESULTS There was no relationship between native disease or the transplant procedure and the identification of BALT. BALT was found from 9 days to 2431 days after transplant (average: 440 days; median: 157 days) in association with clinically insignificant acute cellular rejection (A0, A1) in 75% of cases. Bronchiolitis obliterans developed in 29% of patients with a BALT-positive biopsy, a percentage not different from that of our overall lung transplant population. Immunohistochemical examination of BALT showed helper T cells predominated over cytotoxic T cells in zones surrounding B cell-rich follicular center cells. CONCLUSIONS The association of BALT with high-grade acute cellular rejection and with the development of bronchiolitis obliterans could not be confirmed in human lung allografts. BALT most often accompanied A0 or A1 rejection. This raises the possibility that the presence of BALT on transbronchial biopsy may be part of the evolution of immunologic tolerance in human pulmonary allografts.
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- T Hasegawa
- Department of Pathology, University of Pittsburgh Medical Center-Presbyterian University Hospital, Pennsylvania 15213, USA
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Egan AJ, Boardman LA, Tazelaar HD, Swensen SJ, Jett JR, Yousem SA, Myers JL. Erdheim-Chester disease: clinical, radiologic, and histopathologic findings in five patients with interstitial lung disease. Am J Surg Pathol 1999; 23:17-26. [PMID: 9888700 DOI: 10.1097/00000478-199901000-00002] [Citation(s) in RCA: 132] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/27/2022]
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Erdheim-Chester disease is a clinicopathologic entity defined by a characteristic pattern of symmetric osteosclerosis caused by an infiltrate of mononuclear cells that include prominent numbers of foamy histiocytes. About half of patients have extraskeletal manifestations, including involvement of the hypothalamus/posterior pituitary, orbit, retroperitoneum, skin, lung, and heart. Pulmonary involvement is an uncommon but important manifestation of Erdheim-Chester disease because it causes significant morbidity and mortality. A review of the Mayo Clinic files produced four patients with confirmed Erdheim-Chester disease in whom lung biopsy had been performed. One additional patient was included from the University of Pittsburgh. Four patients were women. The mean age was 53.6 years (range 25-70 years). All patients had bilateral and symmetric sclerotic bone lesions characteristic of Erdheim-Chester disease, although in three the skeletal abnormalities were discovered only after lung biopsy. Four patients had dyspnea, and one also had a dry cough. One patient died 17 months after diagnosis. Chest radiographs showed diffuse interstitial infiltrates in all patients, with an upper zone predominance in three. Thoracic computed tomography (CT) scans showed thickening of the visceral pleura and interlobular septa with patchy associated fine reticular and centrilobular opacities and ground glass attenuation. Lung biopsy specimens showed an infiltrate of foamy histiocytes, lymphocytes, and scattered Touton giant cells with associated fibrosis in a striking lymphatic distribution. The infiltrate involved visceral pleura, interlobular septa, and bronchovascular bundles. Immunohistochemical stains were positive for CD68 in all cases and S-100 protein in four cases. Stains for CD1a were consistently negative. Ultrastructural studies in one case showed no Birbeck granules. Although in bone the histologic features of Erdheim-Chester disease may overlap with Langerhans' cell histiocytosis, its expression in the lung is distinct. Lung involvement in Erdheim-Chester disease has emerged as a unique radiographic and histologic entity.
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- A J Egan
- Department of Laboratory Medicine and Pathology, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, Minnesota 55905, USA
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Pham SM, Mitruka SN, Youm W, Li S, Kawaharada N, Yousem SA, Colson YL, Ildstad ST. Mixed hematopoietic chimerism induces donor-specific tolerance for lung allografts in rodents. Am J Respir Crit Care Med 1999; 159:199-205. [PMID: 9872839 DOI: 10.1164/ajrccm.159.1.9712041] [Citation(s) in RCA: 37] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/16/2022] Open
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Mixed hematopoietic chimerism is a state in which bone marrow hematopoietic stem cells from two genetically different animals coexist. We investigated whether mixed hematopoietic chimerism, resulting from the transplantation of host and donor bone marrow into a lethally irradiated rat, would confer donor-specific tolerance to lung allografts. Recipient rats (Fisher or or Wistar Furth [WF]) were irradiated (1,100 cGy) and reconstituted with a mixture of T-cell-depleted syngeneic plus allogeneic bone marrow. After mixed chimerism was documented by the presence of donor- and host-derived cells in the peripheral blood 4 wk after bone marrow reconstitution, mixed chimeras underwent orthotopic left lung transplantation with donor-specific and third-party lung allografts. No immunosuppressive agents were administered after lung transplantation. All donor-specific lung allografts were accepted by mixed chimeras (n = 40), while all third-party grafts (n = 7) were rejected within 10 d, a time course similar to that for grafts transplanted into naive recipients (n = 14). Radiation control recipients (n = 7) who did not develop mixed chimerism because the donor bone marrow had failed to engraft, also rejected donor-specific grafts within 10 d. We conclude that mixed hematopoietic chimerism induces donor-specific transplantation tolerance to lung allografts.
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- S M Pham
- Departments of Surgery and Pathology, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA
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Luketich JD, Kassis ES, Shriver SP, Nguyen NT, Schauer PR, Weigel TL, Yousem SA, Siegfried JM. Detection of micrometastases in histologically negative lymph nodes in esophageal cancer. Ann Thorac Surg 1998; 66:1715-8. [PMID: 9875777 DOI: 10.1016/s0003-4975(98)00944-8] [Citation(s) in RCA: 50] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/18/2022]
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BACKGROUND New molecular techniques may identify micrometastases in histologically negative lymph nodes and have an impact on the staging of esophageal cancer. We investigated the role of the reverse transcriptase-polymerase chain reaction (RT-PCR) assay to identify micrometastases in esophageal cancer. METHODS The RT-PCR assay to detect carcinoembryonic antigen (CEA) messenger ribonucleic acid (mRNA) was performed on lymph nodes from patients with esophageal cancer and benign esophageal disorders. The presence of CEA mRNA in lymph nodes was considered evidence of metastases. RESULTS Histopathologic study revealed metastases in 50 (41%) of 123 lymph nodes from 30 patients with esophageal cancer. All histologically positive lymph nodes contained CEA mRNA by RT-PCR. Of 73 histologically negative lymph nodes, 36 (49%) contained CEA mRNA, a significant increase compared with the histopathologic diagnosis (p < 0.001). Lymph nodes in patients with benign disease contained no CEA mRNA. In 10 patients, histologic stage was NO. Five of them were also negative by RT-PCR, and all are alive with only one recurrence. In the remaining 5 patients, RT-PCR was positive for occult lymph node metastases; 2 have died of disease, and 1 is alive with recurrent disease. CONCLUSIONS In patients with esophageal cancer, RT-PCR detects more lymph node metastases than does histopathology. Initial follow-up suggests a positive RT-PCR with negative histologic findings may have poor prognostic implications. Further studies will be needed to confirm any clinical implications.
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- J D Luketich
- Department of Surgery, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine and University of Pittsburgh Cancer Institute, Pennsylvania, USA.
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In an attempt to understand the histogenesis and molecular pathogenesis of multifocal bronchioloalveolar lung carcinoma (BAC) we studied 28 cases of BAC using a topographic genotyping approach for the presence of K-ras exon 1 mutations and p53 loss of heterozygosity (LOH). This analytical approach demonstrated K-ras exon 1 mutations in 12.5% of solitary BACs, 40% of BACs with microscopic or macroscopic satellite lesions, and 60% of BACs with intrathoracic metastases. In all cases with K-ras mutations, the identical point mutation was present in the primary, satellite, and intrathoracic metastatic lesions. When p53 LOH was demonstrated in the primary lesion, it was also detected in the satellites and intrathoracic metastases. No significant association was noted between the presence of K-ras mutations and p53 LOH. The results strongly support a monoclonal origin of multifocal BACs. Furthermore, the findings support the theories explaining the origin of multifocal BAC by intraalveolar route of spread, intrapulmonary lymphatic spread, or aerosolization leading to implantation at different sites. A trend toward an increased frequency of K-ras mutations and p53 LOH in BACs with satellites or metastases compared to solitary BACs was noted.
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- V A Holst
- Department of Pathology, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, PA, USA
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Zhang H, Yousem SA, Franklin WA, Elder E, Landreneau R, Ferson P, Keenan R, Whiteside T, Levitt ML. Differentiation and programmed cell death-related intermediate biomarkers for the development of non-small cell lung cancer: a pilot study. Hum Pathol 1998; 29:965-71. [PMID: 9744313 DOI: 10.1016/s0046-8177(98)90202-7] [Citation(s) in RCA: 13] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/29/2022]
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Fifty samples of lung tissue from patients with non-small cell lung cancer were analyzed for the expression and localization of biomarkers related to squamous differentiation and programmed cell death. These markers include tissue transglutaminase (tTG), keratinocyte transglutaminase (kTG), involucrin, loricrin, and Bcl-2. We found that all of these markers are overexpressed in tumors as compared with histologically normal lung epithelium, where expression is minimal. Expression of the oncoprotein, Bcl-2, increased starting in squamous metaplasia and remained elevated in all lesions, including frank carcinoma. In contrast, expression of the other markers was elevated in the histologically abnormal noninvasive lesions but was decreased somewhat in invasive malignancy. In addition, we found that tTG, kTG, and Bcl-2, when expressed, were detected in mutually exclusive areas. These findings suggest that (1) these markers may prove useful, with more extensive testing and clinical correlation, in predicting risk for the development of lung cancer; and (2) pulmonary carcinogenesis may result from the failure of differentiation and programmed cell death mechanisms in the presence of oncogene overexpression rather than through oncogene/tumor suppressor gene abnormalities alone.
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- H Zhang
- Lung Cancer Program, Allegheny University of the Health Sciences-Allegheny Campus, Pittsburgh, PA 15212, USA
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Li S, Liu K, Yousem SA, Pham SM. Intrathymic inoculation of donor bone marrow at the time of transplantation plus a short course of tacrolimus induce long-term acceptance to rat lung allografts. Transplant Proc 1998; 30:1065-6. [PMID: 9636431 DOI: 10.1016/s0041-1345(98)00153-5] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/30/2022]
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- S Li
- Department of Surgery, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, PA 15213, USA
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Perry LP, Iwata M, Tazelaar HD, Colby TV, Yousem SA. Pulmonary mycotoxicosis: a clinicopathologic study of three cases. Mod Pathol 1998; 11:432-6. [PMID: 9619595] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/07/2023]
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Pulmonary mycotoxicosis (PM), also termed organic dust toxic syndrome or silo unloader's syndrome, is an acute illness resulting from massive inhalation of microbial toxins in organic dusts. It has not been well described histologically. Three cases of PM are presented in this report. Open lung biopsies were examined in each case. All of the patients were farmers with no prior lung disease. One had burning in his eyes, throat, and chest after exposure to moldy silage; chills, fever, dry cough, malaise, and weakness developed within 24 hours. Two patients presented with fever, progressive dyspnea, cough, and fatigue within 24 hours of emptying a corncrib, cleaning a chicken coop, and baling hay. Bilateral alveolar and interstitial infiltrates on chest roentgenograms and leukocytosis with neutrophilia were observed in all of the three patients. Two patients became hypoxemic and required mechanical ventilation. Histologic examination showed acute and organizing diffuse alveolar damage in two biopsy specimens and an acute bronchopneumonia in the third. One specimen had 1- to 10-microm ovoid organisms demonstrable with methenamine silver stains; cultures grew Fusarium and Penicillium species. The other two biopsy specimens had negative tissue cultures and special stains for organisms, although Penicillium species were grown from a preoperative bronchoalveolar lavage in one case. The two patients on mechanical ventilation recovered completely with high-dose steroids. The third patient recovered without steroids. No patient had residual functional deficits or chest radiographic abnormalities. PM can be distinguished from allergic and infectious diseases common in individuals exposed to large amounts of organic dust by its clinicopathologic features.
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- L P Perry
- Department of Pathology, University of Pittsburgh Medical Center, Pennsylvania 15213, USA
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Mitruka SN, Pham SM, Zeevi A, Li S, Cai J, Burckart GJ, Yousem SA, Keenan RJ, Griffith BP. Aerosol cyclosporine prevents acute allograft rejection in experimental lung transplantation. J Thorac Cardiovasc Surg 1998; 115:28-36; discussion 36-7. [PMID: 9451042 DOI: 10.1016/s0022-5223(98)70439-8] [Citation(s) in RCA: 31] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/06/2023]
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BACKGROUND The incidence of acute rejection and the morbidity of systemic cyclosporine (INN: cyclosporine) after lung transplantation is significant. Experimental evidence suggests that the allograft locally modulates the immune mechanisms of acute rejection. The purpose of this study was to determine whether aerosolized cyclosporine would prevent acute cellular rejection, achieve effective graft concentrations with low systemic drug delivery, and locally affect production of the inflammatory cytokines involved in acute rejection. METHODS Unilateral orthotopic left lung transplantation was performed in 64 rats (ACI to Lewis), which were divided into eight groups (each group, n = 8): group A, no treatment; groups B to D, aerosol cyclosporine 1 to 3 mg/kg per day, respectively; group E to H, systemic cyclosporine 2, 5, 10, and 15 mg/kg per day, respectively. After the animals were killed on postoperative day 2, 4, or 6, the transplanted lung, native lung, spleen, and blood were collected. Histologic studies, high-pressure liquid chromatography for trough cyclosporine concentrations, and reverse-transcriptase polymerase chain reaction for cytokine gene expression were performed. RESULTS Untreated animals showed grade 4 rejection by postoperative day 6. Aerosol cyclosporine prevented acute rejection in a dose-dependent fashion, with group D animals (3 mg/kg per day) showing minimal grade 1 changes. Among animals receiving systemic cyclosporine, only group H (15 mg/kg per day) controlled (grade 1) rejection. However, aerosol cyclosporine, at an 80% lower dose, achieved significantly lower concentrations of cyclosporine in the graft (12,349 vs 28,714 ng/mg, p = 0.002004) and blood (725 vs 3306 ng/ml, p = 0.000378). Group F (systemic 5 mg/kg per day) had higher cyclosporine concentrations in the blood than group D (p = 0.004572) and similar tissue concentrations (p = 0.115180), yet had grade 2 rejection. Reverse-transcriptase polymerase chain reaction demonstrated equivalent suppression of inducible nitric oxide synthase but a 20- to 25-fold higher expression of interleukin-6, interleukin-10, and interferon-gamma in group D versus group H recipient allografts. CONCLUSION Local delivery of cyclosporine by aerosol inhalation dose-dependently prevented acute pulmonary allograft rejection. Effective graft levels and low systemic drug delivery required significantly lower doses than systemic therapy alone. The gene expression of proinflammatory cytokines involved in allograft rejection was suppressed by aerosol cyclosporine therapy.
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- S N Mitruka
- Department of Cardiothoracic Surgery, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, PA 15261, USA
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Three cases of pulmonary alveolar proteinosis developing in lung allograft recipients are reported. In each case, repeated bouts of alveolar damage from harvest/reperfusion injury, rejection, and infection were observed before the development of intraalveolar accumulation of granular, periodic acid-Schiff-positive material in the allograft lungs. It is speculated that iatrogenic immunosuppression combined with defective clearance of alveolar material by alveolar macrophages created a milieu conducive to the accumulation of surfactant, lipoprotein, and fibrinous debris that was morphologically identical to alveolar proteinosis.
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- S A Yousem
- Department of Pathology, University of Pittsburgh Medical Center, PA, USA
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BACKGROUND Lung transplantation for pulmonary failure resulting from systemic disease is controversial. We reviewed our transplant experience in patients with sarcoidosis, scleroderma, lymphangioleiomyomatosis, and graft-versus-host disease. METHODS This retrospective review examined the outcome of 23 patients who underwent pulmonary transplantation for these systemic diseases. Group 1 included 15 patients with pulmonary hypertension who underwent transplantation (9 for sarcoidosis, 6 for scleroderma), and group 2 included 8 patients with normal pulmonary artery pressures who underwent transplantation (5 for lymphangioleiomyomatosis, 3 for graft-versus-host disease). The incidences of infection and rejection, pulmonary function, and survival were measured and compared with those of patients who underwent transplantation for isolated pulmonary disease. RESULTS Although there were no differences in the rate of infection between patients who underwent transplantation for systemic versus isolated disease, patients with pulmonary hypertension who underwent transplantation for systemic disease had significantly lower rates of rejection. Four patients with sarcoidosis and 2 with lymphangioleiomyomatosis demonstrated recurrence in the allograft. Survival was similar between patients who underwent transplantation for systemic versus isolated disease. CONCLUSIONS Patients with respiratory failure resulting from these systemic diseases can undergo transplantation with outcomes comparable to those obtained in patients who undergo transplantation for isolated pulmonary disease.
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- F A Pigula
- Division of Cardiothoracic Surgery, Presbyterian University Hospital, University of Pittsburgh Medical Center, Pennsylvania 15213, USA
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Primary thymomas arising in an intrapulmonary location without an associated mediastinal component are rare entities. The origin of thymomas in this unusual location remains unknown. Knowledge of the natural history and the prognosis of these tumors is also limited because of their rarity.
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- B Veynovich
- Department of Pathology, Allegheny University of the Health Sciences, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 15212, USA
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Yousem SA, Lohr RH, Colby TV. Idiopathic bronchiolitis obliterans organizing pneumonia/cryptogenic organizing pneumonia with unfavorable outcome: pathologic predictors. Mod Pathol 1997; 10:864-71. [PMID: 9310948] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/05/2023]
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Idiopathic bronchiolitis obliterans organizing pneumonia (BOOP) and cryptogenic organizing pneumonia (COP) are synonyms for an inflammatory interstitial process characterized by young fibromyxoid connective tissue within airways and air spaces. This clinicopathologic condition is associated with an excellent response to steroidal therapy in more than 80% of patients. In this study, we examined matched groups of 10 patients with steroid-responsive idiopathic BOOP/COP and 9 patients with idiopathic BOOP/COP who fared poorly despite therapy. No significant differences in demographics, symptoms, or radiographic appearances were noted between the two cohorts. Histologic examination revealed that the cases with progressive, idiopathic BOOP/COP were accompanied by scarring and remodeling of the background lung parenchyma in 89% of cases, in contrast to 10% of those with a good prognosis. This finding provided a potential morphologic marker of outcome for therapy in idiopathic BOOP/COP. Steroid-nonresponsive cases of BOOP/COP may have a propensity to cause irreversible injury to the lung, a feature not seen in cases with a good outcome. Another explanation may be that such cases represent a BOOP/COP-like reaction pattern in patients with an associated fibrosing interstitial pneumonia, especially usual interstitial pneumonia. The differential diagnosis of BOOP/COP with organizing diffuse alveolar damage, eosinophilic pneumonia, and other chronic interstitial pneumonias is discussed.
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- S A Yousem
- Department of Pathology, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, Pennsylvania, USA
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Holst VA, Finkelstein S, Colby TV, Myers JL, Yousem SA. p53 and K-ras mutational genotyping in pulmonary carcinosarcoma, spindle cell carcinoma, and pulmonary blastoma: implications for histogenesis. Am J Surg Pathol 1997; 21:801-11. [PMID: 9236836 DOI: 10.1097/00000478-199707000-00008] [Citation(s) in RCA: 61] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/04/2023]
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In an attempt to understand the molecular pathogenesis of biphasic pulmonary neoplasms, the authors studied 25 cases of carcinosarcoma, spindle cell carcinoma, and pulmonary blastoma using a combined immunohistochemical and topographic genotyping approach for the presence of p53 abnormalities within the different epithelial and mesenchymal components of these tumors. Genotyping involved a search for point mutational damage in p53 exons 5-8, which was correlated with p53 immunoreactivity. This analytical approach demonstrated p53 missense point mutations in four of nine cases of spindle cell carcinoma with a 100% concordance rate between p53 immunopositivity and the presence of DNA mutational damage. One of six carcinosarcomas, heterologous in type, exhibited a p53 mutation. The concordance rate among carcinosarcomas was also 100%. However, the concordance rate among classic biphasic pulmonary blastomas was only 43%, with one of seven cases demonstrating a p53 mutation by DNA genotyping. The lack of concordance in pulmonary blastomas was possibly due to the existence of genotypically distinct subsets of tumor cells likely bearing mutations among largely nonmutated cells. In a similar fashion, among three well-differentiated fetal type adenocarcinomas, no p53 mutations were detected despite the presence of focal p53 immunopositivity in one of the cases. No K-ras mutations were detected in any of the 25 tumors examined. Monoclonal histogenesis from a single totipotential cell in a subset of these neoplasms (six of 22 cases) was supported by the finding of p53 overexpression and identical p53 mutational genotype in both the epithelial and spindle elements of the tumors. Furthermore, the finding of a small percentage of p53-positive tumor cells within one or both components suggests late acquisition of p53 mutational change in a subset of pulmonary blastomas.
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- V A Holst
- Department of Pathology, University of Pittsburgh Medical Center, PA 15213-2582, USA
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Chronic necrotizing pulmonary aspergillosis (CNPA) is a rare locally destructive form of chronic aspergillosis that is recognized as a clinical syndrome, but has been poorly defined histologically. In this study, 10 cases of CNPA were evaluated from a morphological perspective. Three distinct forms of CNPA emerged. One form (n = 4) resembled a necrotizing granulomatous pneumonia centered around a central zone of infarct-like necrosis of parenchyma resulting from angioinvasive aspergillus. The second pattern (n = 4) was that of a granulomatous bronchiectatic cavity with a central fungus ball and subtle tongues of necrosis and inflammation extending into and through the fibrous wall of the cavity. A final form (n = 2) had a bronchocentric granulomatosis-like appearance with a necrotizing granulomatous bronchitis/bronchiolitis associated with luminal necrotic debris and replacement of mucosa by a palisaded histiocytic reaction. Despite the varied histomorphology, all patients survived the aspergillus infection after antifungal therapy and surgical resection. The different forms of pulmonary aspergillosis are briefly discussed, and the differential diagnosis, with particular regard to mycetomas and allergic forms of bronchocentric granulomatosis, is highlighted.
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- S A Yousem
- Department of Pathology, Montefiore University Hospital, University of Pittsburgh Medical Center, PA 15213-2582, USA
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To perform a retrospective pilot study of the potential role of mast cells in acute and chronic rejection of the lung allograft, transbronchial biopsies of 29 patients with acute rejection and six patients with bronchiolitis obliterans were stained with antibodies to mast cell tryptase. The number of mast cells per unit area were counted, and compared with a control group of normal lung biopsies stained in a similar fashion. Increasing grades of acute rejection were associated with progressively more mast cells per high-power microscopic field. The presence of bronchiolitis obliterans was accompanied by the greatest numbers of mast cells. Mast cells may play a role in the acute rejection response to the lung allograft and in the development of bronchiolitis obliterans.
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- S A Yousem
- Department of Pathology, Montefiore University Hospital, Pittsburgh, PA 15213-2582, USA
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Keenan RJ, Iacono A, Dauber JH, Zeevi A, Yousem SA, Ohori NP, Burckart GJ, Kawai A, Smaldone GC, Griffith BP. Treatment of refractory acute allograft rejection with aerosolized cyclosporine in lung transplant recipients. J Thorac Cardiovasc Surg 1997; 113:335-40; discussion 340-1. [PMID: 9040628 DOI: 10.1016/s0022-5223(97)70331-3] [Citation(s) in RCA: 55] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/03/2023]
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Lung transplant recipients who have persistent acute cellular rejection are at increased risk for the development of chronic rejection, the leading cause of reduced long-term survival. This study evaluated the use of aerosolized cyclosporine as rescue therapy for unremitting acute rejection. Between June 1993 and March 1996, 18 patients with rejection that failed to resolve after therapy with pulse steroids and antilymphocyte globulin were enrolled in the study. Aerosolized cyclosporine A (300 mg) treatment was initiated for 10 consecutive days followed by a maintenance regimen of 3 days per week. Efficacy was assessed by graft histologic and pulmonary function testing. With the use of linear regression, results in these patients were compared with those in 23 control patients, matched for histologic acute rejection, who had continued to receive conventional rescue therapy. Two patients were unable to tolerate the treatments and were withdrawn from the study. Significant improvement in histologic rejection occurred in 14 of the remaining 16 patients after a mean of 37 days of aerosolized cyclosporine therapy. Measures of forced vital capacity and forced expiratory volume in 1 second (change in percent predicted/100 days plus or minus the standard error) increased over time in the treated patients whereas the condition of control patients declined despite repeated attempts at conventional rescue (forced vital capacity, aerosolized cyclosporine group, 4.6 +/- 2.9 vs control group -8.1 +/- 1.9, p = 0.001; forced expiratory volume in 1 second, aerosolized cyclosporine group, 2.1 +/- 4.4 vs control group -9.8 +/- 2.6, p = 0.043). Renal and hepatic toxicity during cyclosporine therapy was not observed. The incidence of acute histologic rejection (> or = A2) decreased from 2.49 +/- 0.68 episodes/100 days before aerosolized cyclosporine therapy to 0.72 +/- 0.3 episodes/100 days (p < 0.05). In summary, aerosolized cyclosporine is a safe and effective therapy for acute rejection that has failed to improve with conventional treatment.
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- R J Keenan
- Department of Surgery, University of Pittsburgh, Pa., USA
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Martinez JA, Paradis IL, Dauber JH, Grgurich W, Richards T, Yousem SA, Ohori P, Williams P, Iacono AT, Nunley DR, Keenan RJ. Spirometry values in stable lung transplant recipients. Am J Respir Crit Care Med 1997; 155:285-90. [PMID: 9001326 DOI: 10.1164/ajrccm.155.1.9001326] [Citation(s) in RCA: 35] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/03/2023] Open
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To clarify the usefulness of spirometry to assess the function of the lung allograft post-transplant, we retrospectively reviewed 351 sequential spirometry measurements performed by 65 healthy recipients after the 80th postoperative day when the clinical evaluation and fiberoptic bronchoscopy with transbronchial biopsies and bronchoalveolar lavage excluded significant rejection or infection in the allograft. The mean coefficients of variation (CV) and significant values for change (SC) for the FVC, FEV1, and FEF25-75% were calculated according to the type of transplant procedure (heart-lung and double-lung [HL-DL] versus single-lung [SL]), and to the time after transplant when the spirometry measurements were obtained < or = 1 yr versus > 1 yr). The SC for the FVC decreased with time after transplantation for both HL-DL (< or = 1 yr: 17% versus > 1 yr: 7%) and SL recipients (< or = 1 yr: 13% versus > 1 yr: 8%). The higher degree of variability within the first year was primarily due to increasing values especially in the HL-DL recipients. The SC for the FEV1 also decreased over time for HL-DL recipients (< or = 1 yr: 18% versus > 1 yr: 9%) but was similar for SL recipients at both intervals (13%). Our results suggest that decreases of > or = 11% in FVC or 12% in FEV1 in HL-DL recipients and > or = 12% in FVC or 13% in FEV1 for SL recipients indicate a significant decrease in allograft function that may be due to infection or rejection.
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- J A Martinez
- Division of Pulmonary, Allergy and Critical Care Medicine, Department of Biostatistics, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, Pennsylvania, USA
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Shah NS, Nakayama DK, Jacob TD, Nishio I, Imai T, Billiar TR, Exler R, Yousem SA, Motoyama EK, Peitzman AB. Efficacy of inhaled nitric oxide in oleic acid-induced acute lung injury. Crit Care Med 1997; 25:153-8. [PMID: 8989192 DOI: 10.1097/00003246-199701000-00028] [Citation(s) in RCA: 18] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/03/2023]
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OBJECTIVE To assess the efficacy of inhaled nitric oxide in improving pulmonary hypertension and gas exchange following oleic acid-induced acute lung injury. DESIGN Prospective, pharmacologic study. SETTING Surgical research laboratory at the University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA. SUBJECTS Instrumented, intubated pigs weighing 16 to 27 kg. INTERVENTIONS Intravenous oleic acid and inhaled nitric oxide. MEASUREMENTS AND MAIN RESULTS All pigs treated with intravenous oleic acid (0.11 mL/kg) developed a severe lung injury with pulmonary hypertension, accompanied by impaired oxygenation, intrapulmonary shunting, and increased extravascular lung water (p < .05 compared with baseline). Following nitric oxide inhalation, although pulmonary hypertension decreased in a dose-dependent fashion, no amelioration in pulmonary gas exchange was observed, as reflected by PaO2 and intrapulmonary shunt. Plasma nitrite and nitrate concentrations, the stable end products of nitric oxide metabolism, did not increase following nitric oxide exposure in this model of severe lung injury. CONCLUSIONS The effect of inhaled nitric oxide, restricted to relieving pulmonary vasoconstriction in this model of lung injury, may have limited benefit in improving pulmonary gas exchange when diffusion is impaired by severe lung injury and inflammatory thickening of the alveolar-capillary barrier. Nitric oxide inhalation may have better results when used at an earlier, less severe stage of acute lung injury.
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- N S Shah
- Department of Pediatric Surgery, Children's Hospital of Pittsburgh, USA
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Alterations in extracellular matrix, cell-cell and cell-matrix adhesion, and oncogenes are thought to be important in tumor progression and metastasis. Adenocarcinomas of the lung from 31 patients were studied for immunohistochemical expression of basement membrane molecule type IV collagen, type IV collagenase, and integrins alpha2,3,v adhesion molecules to assess their diagnostic and prognostic importance in pathological stage T2 tumors. The results indicate that with decreasing tumor differentiation, there is a progressive loss of type IV basement membrane collagen (P = .06) and decreased integrin alpha2 expression (P = .03). Type IV collagenase expression was significantly associated with the presence of lymph node metastases, with moderate to strong expression present in 53% T2N1 tumors compared with none (0%) of the T2N0 tumors (P = .008). Integrin alpha(v) was increased in tumors with nodal metastases compared with those without (P = .08). Loss of alpha2 and alpha3 integrins was associated with increased alpha v expression (P = .03). Median survival was 48 months for T2N0 and 20 months for T2N1 (P = .07). In correlating expression of the immunohistochemical markers and survival, type IV collagenase expression was found to be a predictor of survival at a level of P = .07. Measurable alterations in integrins and extracellular matrix, and in particular, expression of matrix-degrading enzyme type IV collagenase may be of prognostic importance in resectable adenocarcinoma of the lung.
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- M R Clarke
- Department of Pathology, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, PA, USA
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Komatsu K, Youm W, Konishi H, Kawaharada N, Yousem SA, Murase N, Griffith BP, Pham SM. Prolonged survival of hamster-to-rat pulmonary xenografts by tacrolimus (FK506) and cyclophosphamide. J Heart Lung Transplant 1996; 15:722-7. [PMID: 8820789] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/02/2023] Open
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BACKGROUND Severe shortage of donor organs in clinical lung transplantation prompted us to investigate the potential use of pulmonary xenografts. The purpose of this study was to determine whether an immunosuppressive regimen of tacrolimus (FK506) and cyclophosphamide would prolong the survival of hamster-to-rat pulmonary xenografts. METHOD Left lung transplantation was done with male Golden Syrian hamsters used as donors and inbred male Lewis rats as recipients. Control animals (n = 10) received no immunosuppressive drugs whereas experimental animals (n = 6) were treated with tacrolimus and cyclophosphamide. Tacrolimus was administered intramuscularly at a dosage of 2 mg/kg per day on postoperative days 0 to 4, followed by 1 mg/kg per day on days 5 to 29 and 0.5 mg/kg per day on days 30 to 99. Cyclophosphamide (8 mg/kg per day) was administered orally from the day before transplantation to day 8. After transplantation the animals were monitored by chest radiography. Recipient animals were killed at timed intervals (days 60 and 100) and when the chest radiograph showed complete opacification of the transplanted lung. At necropsy, pulmonary xenografts were examined histologically for evidence of rejection, which was graded on a scale of 0 (no rejection) to 4 (severe rejection). Antihamster lymphocytotoxic antibody titer was also measured in recipient animals after transplantation. RESULTS Pulmonary xenografts in the control animals had a median [correction of medium] survival time of 3 days, whereas the median survival in treated animals was more than 74 days. All pulmonary xenografts in control animals had severe rejection on day 3 after transplantation, whereas those in the treated animals had no rejection on days 60 and 100. The lymphocytotoxic antibody titers in control animals increased from 1:16 before operation to 1:4096 on day 3 (p < 0.01). In the treated animals, the lymphocytotoxic antibody titer on day 21 was 1: 8, which was not different from the preoperative value (1:16). CONCLUSION These results indicate that a combination of tacrolimus and a short course of cyclophosphamide prolongs the survival of pulmonary xenografts in a hamster-to-rat model.
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- K Komatsu
- Department of Surgery, University of Pittsburgh, School of Medicine, Pa., USA
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Mattsson P, Zeevi A, Cai J, Yousem SA, Hoffman R, Nalesnik M, Burckart GJ, Geller D, Griffith BP. Effect of aminoguanidine and cyclosporine on lung allograft rejection. Ann Thorac Surg 1996; 62:207-12. [PMID: 8678644 DOI: 10.1016/0003-4975(96)00296-2] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/01/2023]
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BACKGROUND Aminoguanidine, a nitric oxide synthase inhibitor, has been shown to reduce the inflammatory allogeneic response. Here we used it in combination with cyclosporine to evaluate its effect on a clinically relevant immunosuppressive protocol. METHODS Orthotopic left lung transplantation was performed in 120 rats, of which 24 were syngeneic Lewis to Lewis controls, and allogeneic transplantations were performed across major histoincompatibility barriers (ACI to Lewis). We studied synchronous histologic changes accompanying cytokines and nitric oxide synthase messenger RNA by reverse transcriptase polymerase chain reaction in the grafted lungs. Nitrate/nitrite, oxidized degradation products of nitric oxide, were measured in the whole blood, as were concentrations of cyclosporine. Lung tissue was immunohistochemically stained for nitric oxide synthase protein. Rats receiving allografts were either untreated (24) or received low-dose cyclosporine (232 +/- 105 ng/mL blood by high-performance liquid chromatography), high-dose cyclosporine (2,046 +/- 664 ng/mL), aminoguanidine alone (800 mg. kg-1. day-1 intraperitoneally), or aminoguanidine plus low-dose cyclosporine. RESULTS The results suggest that aminoguanidine combined with low doses of cyclosporine can reduce the allogeneic response across major histoincompatibilities in rodent lung transplantation. Its biologic effect may not exclusively depend on the inhibition of nitric oxide synthase and may, by other means, reduce proinflammatory cytokines. CONCLUSIONS Aminoguanidine may be an effective adjuvant to conventional immunosuppression.
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- P Mattsson
- Division of Cardiothoracic Surgery, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, Pennsylvania, USA
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Coppola D, Clarke M, Landreneau R, Weyant RJ, Cooper D, Yousem SA. Bcl-2, p53, CD44, and CD44v6 isoform expression in neuroendocrine tumors of the lung. Mod Pathol 1996; 9:484-90. [PMID: 8733762] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/01/2023]
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Immunohistochemical expression of p53, bcl-2, CD44 standard (CD44S), and the v6 isoform of CD44 (CD44v6) proteins were studied in 14 typical carcinoid tumors (TCs), 11 atypical carcinoids (ACs), and eight small cell carcinomas (SCLCs) in an attempt to use these markers of mutational events and cellular adhesion to discriminate neoplasms demonstrating neuroendocrine differentiation. p53 and bcl-2 overexpression were associated with more aggressive neuroendocrine cell types. p53 nuclear staining was weakly positive in 21% of the TCs, whereas strong nuclear staining was seen in 64% of the ACs and 88% of the SCLCs (P = 0.0047). bcl-2 was present in 21% of the TCs, 91% of the ACs, and 100% of the SCLCs (P = 0.0001). In contrast, CD44S and CD44v6 were inversely correlated with more aggressive types of neuroendocrine tumors. CD44S expression was moderate to strong in all of the TCs and 91% of the ACs but in only 37% of the SCLCs (P = 0.0018). There was no correlation between expression of these markers and tumor size or nodal status, although loss of CD44v6 was associated with lymph node metastases in the TC group only. In the spectrum of neuroendocrine tumors of the lung, p53 and bcl-2 overexpression correlates with more aggressive histologic cell types. The decreasing CD44S expression in AC and SCLC is similar to findings in cancer of the colon and in non-small cell carcinoma of the lung, where loss of CD44S is associated with poor prognosis. In AC and SCLC, but not in cancer of the colon, loss of CD44v6 correlates with more aggressive neoplasms and might correlate with lymph node metastases in TCs.
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- D Coppola
- Department of Pathology, Montefiore University Hospital, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 15213-2582, USA
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Sloman A, D'Amico F, Yousem SA. Immunohistochemical markers of prolonged survival in small cell carcinoma of the lung. An immunohistochemical study. Arch Pathol Lab Med 1996; 120:465-72. [PMID: 8639050] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/01/2023]
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OBJECTIVE To investigate the association of a variety of cell surface and cytoplasmic antigens in small cell carcinoma of the lung with long-term survival (greater than 2 years). DESIGN Using immunohistochemical analysis of small cell carcinomas, the tissue expression of corticotropin, bcl-2, p-glycoprotein, cathepsin B, cathepsin D, CD44, carcinoembryonic antigen, collagenase IV, Leu-7, neu oncoprotein, p53, S100, and synaptophysin was assessed. RESULTS Compared with the control group of short-term survivors, tumors from prolonged survivors were unique in their relative absence of staining for cathepsin B (0/13 vs 3/13 [23%], P = .037), cathepsin D (5/13 [38%] vs 13/15 [87%], P = 0.006), carcinoembryonic antigen (5/13 [38%] vs 11/15 [73%], P = .047), and neu oncoprotein (5/13 [38%] vs 14/15 [93%], P = .0014). A variety of histologic characteristics were also compared, and none were shown to be associated with differences in survival in this study. CONCLUSIONS Negative immunohistochemical staining for cathepsin B, cathepsin D, carcinoembryonic antigen, and neu oncoprotein is associated with prolonged survival in small cell carcinoma of the lung. Evaluation of these antigens should be considered in future attempts to stratify patients with small cell carcinoma of the lung for prognostic or therapeutic purposes, as this study is limited by the small size of the study group and the large number of clinical and pathologic variables.
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- A Sloman
- Department of Pathology, Montefiore University Hospital, University of Pittsburgh Medical Center, PA 15213-2582, USA
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Iacono AT, Keenan RJ, Duncan SR, Smaldone GC, Dauber JH, Paradis IL, Ohori NP, Grgurich WF, Burckart GJ, Zeevi A, Delgado E, O'Riordan TG, Zendarsky MM, Yousem SA, Griffith BP. Aerosolized cyclosporine in lung recipients with refractory chronic rejection. Am J Respir Crit Care Med 1996; 153:1451-5. [PMID: 8616581 DOI: 10.1164/ajrccm.153.4.8616581] [Citation(s) in RCA: 99] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/31/2023] Open
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This study evaluated aerosolized cyclosporine as rescue therapy for lung transplant recipients with unremitting chronic rejection. Nine patients with histologic active obliterative bronchiolitis and progressively worsening airway obstruction refractory to conventional immune suppression received aerosolized cyclosporine. Improvement in rejection histology was seen in seven of nine patients. We compared the changes in the FVC and FEV1 over time using linear regression analysis in these seven histologic responders and nine historical control patients. During the pretreatment period for both the experimental and control groups, the FVC and FEV1 declined at comparable rates. After aerosolized cyclosporine there was stabilization of pulmonary function, whereas in the controls there was continued decline. Cyclosporine blood levels were less than 50 ng/ml 24 h after an aerosolized dose of 300 mg in five patients receiving oral tacrolimus. Nephrotoxicity, hepatotoxicity, and a greater than expected rate of infection was not observed. This study suggests that aerosolized cyclosporine is safe and may be effective therapy for refractory chronic rejection in lung transplant recipients.
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- A T Iacono
- Department of Medicine, University of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA
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Although acute rejection is a frequent occurrence after transplantation, the clinical behavior and pathological manifestations of untreated mild acute cellular rejection in clinically stable lung allograft recipients is poorly defined. Sixteen patients were identified who had asymptomatic mild acute rejection that was untreated but followed by subsequent pulmonary function tests and repeat transbronchial biopsy. Six patients had spontaneous resolution of their infiltrates; the condition of 10 patients worsened as observed from their biopsies or function studies. Those who worsened had more episodes of acute rejection per patient before the A2 biopsy (2.0 vs 1.3), and 50% developed bronchiolitis obliterans compared with 16% in the spontaneously regressing group. Pathological evaluation showed that patients with persistent or worsening untreated A2 rejection tended to have more large and small airway inflammation, larger numbers of eosinophils and plasma cells in their biopsies, and airway and airspace granulation tissue. These variables may be used to help determine which low grade lung rejection episodes should receive adjunctive immunosuppressive therapy.
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- S A Yousem
- Department of Pathology, Montefiore University Hospital, University of Pittsburgh Medical Center, PA, USA
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Yousem SA, Berry GJ, Cagle PT, Chamberlain D, Husain AN, Hruban RH, Marchevsky A, Ohori NP, Ritter J, Stewart S, Tazelaar HD. Revision of the 1990 working formulation for the classification of pulmonary allograft rejection: Lung Rejection Study Group. J Heart Lung Transplant 1996; 15:1-15. [PMID: 8820078] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/02/2023] Open
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In 1990, an international grading scheme for the grading of pulmonary allograft rejection was instituted. The use of this classification has resulted in a uniformity of grading which has allowed inter-institutional collaborations and communication unique in allograft monitoring. In 1995 an expanded group of international pathologists convened and revised the original proposal. This article summarizes the updated classification for pulmonary allograft rejection. In brief, acute rejection is based on perivascular and interstitial mononuclear infiltrates. Each grade of acute rejection should mention the presence of coexistent airway inflammation, the intensity of which may also be graded. Chronic rejection is divided into bronchiolitis obliterans--active or inactive--and vascular atherosclerosis--accelerated arterial or venous sclerosis.
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- S A Yousem
- Department of Pathology, Montefiore University Hospital, University of Pittsburgh Medical Center, PA 15213-2582, USA
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Guilinger RA, Paradis IL, Dauber JH, Yousem SA, Williams PA, Keenan RJ, Griffith BP. The importance of bronchoscopy with transbronchial biopsy and bronchoalveolar lavage in the management of lung transplant recipients. Am J Respir Crit Care Med 1995; 152:2037-43. [PMID: 8520773 DOI: 10.1164/ajrccm.152.6.8520773] [Citation(s) in RCA: 105] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/31/2023] Open
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Medical and surgical advances have made lung transplantation a feasible therapy for end-stage lung disease. Fiberoptic bronchoscopy with bronchoalveolar lavage (BAL) and transbronchial lung biopsy (TBBx) is an accepted technique for detecting clinically evident rejection and infection in the allograft of symptomatic recipients. The role of TBBx and BAL in managing asymptomatic recipients is less defined. We retrospectively examined the role of bronchoscopy with TBBx and BAL in 1124 bronchoscopy procedures that were performed on 161 lung transplant recipients between January 1, 1988, and December 31, 1993. Bronchoscopy was performed when there was a change in the recipient's clinical condition, to assess the response of the allograft to a prior therapy, and under a surveillance protocol for detecting asymptomatic rejection or infection. Surveillance bronchoscopy was performed according to the following schedule: 10-14 days after transplantation, every 3 mo during the first year, every 4 mo during the second year, and at 6-mo intervals thereafter. Surveillance bronchoscopies were defined as procedures where the physician felt that there was no infection or rejection in the allograft on the basis of a standardized clinical evaluation, which excluded the results of the TBBx and BAL. We compared the clinical impression recorded by the physician on the day of the procedure with the final diagnosis determined after the results of the TBBx and BAL were known. We found unsuspected rejection and/or infection that required therapy in 25% (90/355) of all surveillance bronchoscopy procedures. Most episodes (61/90, 68%) of unsuspected rejection and/or infection occurred in the first 6 mo after transplantation.(ABSTRACT TRUNCATED AT 250 WORDS)
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- R A Guilinger
- Division of Pulmonary, Allergy, and Critical Care Medicine, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, Pennsylvania 15261, USA
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Plasma levels of endothelin-1 (ET-1) are markedly higher in patients with hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) than in normal controls. In order to further investigate this, we evaluated ET-1 immunoreactivity and mRNA expression in human HCC tissue. 70% (14/20) of the tumor tissues immunostained positively with ET-1 antibody and a significant association was observed between immunostaining in cells lining the tumor feeding vessels and tumor vascularity as determined by hepatic angiography. Moreover, the neoplastic hepatocytes in the tumors also stained positively with ET-1 antibody. All of the HCC tissue samples which immunostained for ET-1 also expressed ET-1 mRNA, indicating that ET-1 is actively synthesized by the tumors.
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- S Kar
- Pittsburgh Transplantation Institute, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, PA, USA
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Although Adenovirus (ADV) pneumonia has been documented in bone marrow, kidney, and liver transplantation recipients, it has only been sporadically reported in lung transplantation recipients. Among our 308 lung transplantation recipients, we identified four who developed ADV pneumonia. Formalin-fixed paraffin-embedded biopsy and autopsy specimens on all cases were studied by routine histology, immunohistochemistry (IHC), and by in situ hybridization (ISH) for evidence of ADV, and the results were correlated with the patients' clinical progression. Three of the four patients were children, and all four had a progressive and rapidly fatal course within 45 days posttransplantation. The lungs showed necrotizing bronchocentric pneumonia with tendency to spread diffusely to produce alveolar damage and organizing pneumonia. The occurrence of this rapidly fatal ADV pneumonia mainly affecting the pediatric population, early in the posttransplantation course, suggests that the infection is primary to the recipient with ADV either originating and reactivating in the donor lung or acquired from the upper respiratory tract of the recipient. The characteristic smudgy intranuclear inclusions of ADV, as well as IHC and ISH positivity, were observed in the lungs of all autopsies. Antemortem biopsy demonstration of ADV by inclusion formation, IHC, and ISH was observed in two patients. In another patient, antemortem ADV was shown only by ISH, and the recognition of inclusions was made difficult by coexistent CMV infection. Although IHC and ISH may have the potential for detecting early infection, recognition of the characteristic clinical setting with necrotizing bronchocentric pneumonia and smudgy intranuclear inclusions should alert one to the diagnosis of ADV pneumonia.
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- N P Ohori
- Department of Pathology, Montefiore-University of Pittsburgh Medical Center, PA, USA
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Keenan RJ, Zeevi A, Iacono AT, Spichty KJ, Cai JZ, Yousem SA, Ohori NP, Paradis IL, Kawai A, Griffith BP. Efficacy of inhaled cyclosporine in lung transplant recipients with refractory rejection: correlation of intragraft cytokine gene expression with pulmonary function and histologic characteristics. Surgery 1995; 118:385-91. [PMID: 7638755 DOI: 10.1016/s0039-6060(05)80349-6] [Citation(s) in RCA: 35] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/26/2023]
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BACKGROUND Refractory rejection is a major cause of morbidity and death among lung transplant recipients. Traditional rescue therapies have proved only modestly successful. We recently demonstrated the safety of inhaled cyclosporine for patients with end-stage chronic rejection; this trial was extended to patients with refractory acute rejection. The present study was to determine whether effective inhaled cyclosporine therapy was correlated with suppression of cytokine gene expression. METHODS Twelve lung transplant recipients were studied. Maintenance therapy, cyclosporine or FK 506, azathioprine, and prednisone, was continued, and inhaled cyclosporine at a dose of 300 mg/day was added. Pulmonary function testing and histologic characteristics from transbronchial biopsy specimens were used to assess efficacy of therapy. Bronchoalveolar lavage (BAL) and peripheral blood cells were analyzed for the presence of messenger RNA by using 32P-labeled primers of cytokines interleukin-2 (IL-2), IL-6, IL-10, and interferon-gamma (gamma) via reverse transcriptase-polymerase chain reaction. RESULTS Nine of 12 patients (five with acute rejection, four with chronic rejection) exhibited histologic resolution of rejection within 3 months of inhaled cyclosporine therapy. Pulmonary function (forced expiratory volume in 1 second) improved from pretherapy levels in the patients with acute rejection (p < 0.05). All of the nine histologic responders exhibited 4- to 150-fold decreases (p < 0.05) in IL-6 and interferon-gamma messenger RNA levels in the BAL, whereas the three patients who failed exhibited persistent or increased cytokine profiles. IL-2 and IL-10 in BAL and peripheral blood lymphocyte cytokines were not informative. CONCLUSIONS These results indicate that inhaled cyclosporine is effective therapy for refractory pulmonary rejection and that its mechanism of action is associated with suppression of proinflammatory cytokines IL-6 and interferon-gamma within the allograft.
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- R J Keenan
- Division of Cardiothoracic Surgery, University of Pittsburgh, Pa, USA
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Bando K, Paradis IL, Similo S, Konishi H, Komatsu K, Zullo TG, Yousem SA, Close JM, Zeevi A, Duquesnoy RJ. Obliterative bronchiolitis after lung and heart-lung transplantation. An analysis of risk factors and management. J Thorac Cardiovasc Surg 1995; 110:4-13; discussion 13-4. [PMID: 7609567 DOI: 10.1016/s0022-5223(05)80003-0] [Citation(s) in RCA: 317] [Impact Index Per Article: 10.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/26/2023]
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With a prevalence of 34% (55/162 at-risk recipients) and a mortality of 25% (14/55 affected recipients), obliterative bronchiolitis is the most significant long-term complication after pulmonary transplantation. Because of its importance, we examined donor-recipient characteristics and antecedent clinical events to identify factors associated with development of obliterative bronchiolitis, which might be eliminated or modified to decrease its prevalence. We also compared treatment outcome between recipients whose diagnosis was made early by surveillance transbronchial lung biopsy before symptoms or decline in pulmonary function were present versus recipients whose diagnosis was made later when symptoms or declines in pulmonary function were present. Postoperative airway ischemia, an episode of moderate or severe acute rejection (grade III/IV), three or more episodes of histologic grade II (or greater) acute rejection, and cytomegalovirus disease were risk factors for development of obliterative bronchiolitis. Recipients with obliterative bronchiolitis detected in the preclinical stage were significantly more likely to be in remission than recipients who had clinical disease at the time of diagnosis: 81% (13/15) versus 33% (13/40); p < 0.05). These results indicate that acute rejection is the most significant risk factor for development of obliterative bronchiolitis and that obliterative bronchiolitis responds to treatment with augmented immunosuppression when it is detected early by surveillance transbronchial biopsy.
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- K Bando
- Division of Cardiothoracic Surgery, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, Pa 15213, USA
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Bando K, Paradis IL, Keenan RJ, Yousem SA, Komatsu K, Konishi H, Guilinger RA, Masciangelo TN, Pham SM, Armitage JM. Comparison of outcomes after single and bilateral lung transplantation for obstructive lung disease. J Heart Lung Transplant 1995; 14:692-8. [PMID: 7578177] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/26/2023] Open
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BACKGROUND AND METHODS To determine the long-term functional outcome for single versus bilateral lung transplant for nonseptic obstructive lung disease, we compared the results from 39 single and nine bilateral lung transplant procedures. The nine bilateral lung transplants included three en bloc double lung and six bilateral sequential lung transplants. RESULTS Early deaths within 30 days of transplantation occurred in two of nine (22%) bilateral and 4 of 39 (10%) single lung transplants (p = Not significant). Compared with pretransplant values, pulmonary function as assessed by the spirometric indexes of the percent predicted forced vital capacity, forced expiratory volume in one second, forced expiratory volume in one second/forced vital capacity, and forced expiratory flow at 25% and 75% of forced vital capacity improved significantly up to at least 12 months after transplantation for both single and bilateral lung transplant recipients. The degree of pulmonary function improvement was better in single as compared with bilateral lung recipients. By 6 months after transplantation, all but one single and all bilateral lung recipients were in New York Heart Association class I or II (p = Not significant). One-year survival was significantly better after single (77%) compared with after bilateral lung transplantation (35%) (p < 0.05). CONCLUSIONS These results suggest that single lung transplantation is the procedure of choice for patients with nonseptic obstructive lung disease.
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- K Bando
- Division of Cardiothoracic Surgery, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, Pa 15213, USA
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The histological changes in 17 biopsy specimens of the lung showing graft-versus-host disease (GVHD) in bone marrow transplant (BMT) recipients were reviewed and correlated with the patients' clinical courses. These morphological changes fell into four transplant-related categories: diffuse alveolar damage, lymphocytic bronchitis/bronchiolitis with interstitial pneumonitis, bronchiolitis obliterans organizing pneumonia, and cicatricial bronchiolitis obliterans. Pulmonary disease correlated with the presence of GVHD at extrathoracic sites. Patients with active lymphocytic bronchitis/bronchiolitis, cicatricial bronchiolitis obliterans, and diffuse alveolar damage had particularly poor outcomes. A proposal is offered for the categorization of the pulmonary damage caused by GVHD in BMT recipients.
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- S A Yousem
- Department of Pathology, Montefiore University Hospital, University of Pittsburgh Medical Center, PA 15213-2582, USA
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Rosendale B, Yousem SA. Discrimination of Epstein-Barr virus-related posttransplant lymphoproliferations from acute rejection in lung allograft recipients. Arch Pathol Lab Med 1995; 119:418-23. [PMID: 7748068] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/26/2023]
Abstract
Organ allograft recipients have a propensity to develop Epstein-Barr virus-associated posttransplant lymphoproliferative disorders (PTLDs). This is especially true of lung allograft recipients, who have an unusually high incidence of 8% and a predilection for developing PTLD in the allograft. Distinction of PTLD from acute cellular rejection by transbronchial biopsy, the standard means of monitoring the status of the lung allograft, may be difficult but is of clinical importance because of the different therapeutic strategies used to treat Epstein-Barr virus-related PTLD and rejection. To discriminate these two entities, we analyzed transbronchial biopsies from 11 cases of acute cellular rejection and one case of PTLD, and open lung biopsies from four cases of PTLD in the allograft of lung transplant recipients. Areas of particular interest were the main tumor mass of the PTLD and the pulmonary parenchyma adjacent to the mass where perivascular mononuclear infiltrates predominated and mimicked acute cellular rejection. The specimens were examined by routine histochemistry and immunohistochemistry for B- and T-cell antigens and Epstein-Barr virus latent membrane protein expression. The main tumor mass in the PTLD cases revealed consolidation of lung parenchyma by a monomorphous lymphocytic infiltrate, which was composed of large lymphoid cells that marked as B lymphocytes. The acute cellular rejection cases and peripheral areas of the PTLD lesions were composed of polymorphous, perivascular lymphocytic infiltrates with similar numbers of B and T cells. All cases of PTLD, both the main mass and the peripheral infiltrates, had lymphocytes that stained positively with antibody to Epstein-Barr virus latent membrane protein. None of the acute cellular rejection cases was positive with this antibody. While a sheetlike monomorphous infiltrate with a mononuclear composition of more than 25% B cells and more than 30% large lymphoid cells favored PTLD over acute cellular rejection, positive immunohistochemical stains for Epstein-Barr virus latent membrane protein are most helpful in separating PTLD from acute rejection when this differential diagnosis arises in small biopsy samples.
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Affiliation(s)
- B Rosendale
- Department of Pathology, Montefiore University Hospital, University of Pittsburgh Medical Center, PA, USA
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