[Pulmonary manifestations of the vasculitides].

Abstract

The vasculitides involving the lower respiratory tract are mainly the small vessels vasculitides associated with antineutrophil cytoplasmic autoantibodies including Wegener granulomatosis (WG), microscopic polyangiitis (MPA), and Churg-Strauss syndrome (SCS). WG pulmonary manifestations mainly consist of nodules and pneumonias often cavitary, and tracheobronchial stenoses. MPA often consists of pulmonary-renal syndrome with alveolar hemorrhage possibly severe. In SCS, asthma with eosinophilia and further eosinophilic pneumonia are the characteristic pulmonary features. Lung biopsy may be necessary in WG to obtain a definite diagnosis when no other site for biopsy is possible.

• Authors: Jean-François Cordier
• Journal: La Revue du praticien (Rev Prat) Vol. 58 Issue 5 Pg. 492-8 (Mar 15 2008) ISSN: 0035-2640 [Print] France
• Vernacular Title: Atteinte pulmonaire des vascularites.
• PMID: 18524105 (Publication Type: Journal Article, Review)

Topics

• Asthma (diagnosis)
• Behcet Syndrome (diagnosis, diagnostic imaging)
• Biopsy
• Bronchial Diseases (diagnosis)
• Bronchography
• Churg-Strauss Syndrome (diagnosis, diagnostic imaging)
• Diagnosis, Differential
• Granulomatosis with Polyangiitis (diagnosis, diagnostic imaging, pathology)
• Hemoptysis (etiology)
• Hemorrhage (diagnosis)
• Humans
• Lung (pathology)
• Lung Diseases (diagnosis, diagnostic imaging)
• Magnetic Resonance Imaging
• Pleural Diseases
• Pleural Effusion (diagnosis, diagnostic imaging)
• Pneumonia (diagnosis)
• Pulmonary Alveoli
• Radiography, Thoracic
• Tomography, X-Ray Computed
• Tracheal Stenosis (diagnosis)
• Vasculitis (diagnosis, diagnostic imaging, pathology)