High-Resolution Computed Tomographic Imaging and Pathologic Features of Pulmonary Veno-Occlusive Disease: A Review of Three Patients

Current Problems in Diagnostic Radiology

Volumn 35, Issue 6, 2006, Pages 219-223

  Ozsoyoglu, Aliye A ^a   Swartz, Justin ^b   Farver, Carol F ^b   Mohammed, Tan Lucien H ^b  

^a CASE WESTERN RESERVE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b LERNER RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ILOPROST; PROSTACYCLIN; PROSTAGLANDIN DERIVATIVE;

CLINICAL FEATURE; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; DISEASE SEVERITY; HIGH RESOLUTION COMPUTER TOMOGRAPHY; HUMAN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGING SYSTEM; LUNG BIOPSY; LUNG LOBE; LUNG VEIN OBSTRUCTION; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PULMONARY HYPERTENSION; RADIODIAGNOSIS; RARE DISEASE; REVIEW;

ADULT; BIOPSY; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; PULMONARY VENO-OCCLUSIVE DISEASE; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 33750442930     PISSN: 03630188     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1067/j.cpradiol.2006.07.004     Document Type: Review

References (17)

1. Höra J. Zur Histologie der klinischen "Primaren Pulmonalsklerose.". Frankf Z Pathol 47 (1934) 100-118
2. Rubin L.J. Primary pulmonary hypertension. N Engl J Med 336 (1997) 111-117
3. Holcomb B.W., Loyd J.E., Ely W.E., et al. Pulmonary veno-occlusive disease: A case series and new observations. Chest 118 (2000) 1671-1679
4. Mandel J., Mark E.J., and Hales C.A. Pulmonary veno-occlusive disease. Am J Respir Crit Care Med 162 (2000) 1964-1973
5. Runo J.R., Vnencak-Jones C.L., Prince M., et al. Pulmonary veno-occlusive disease caused by an inherited mutation in bone morphogenetic protein receptor II. Am J Respir Crit Care Med 167 (2003) 889-894
6. Swensen S.J., Tashjian J.H., Myers J.L., et al. Pulmonary venoocclusive disease: CT findings in eight patients. AJR 167 (1996) 937-940
7. Cassart M., Gevenois P.A., Kramer M., et al. Pulmonary venoocclusive disease: CT findings before and after single-lung transplantation. Ajr 160 (1993) 759-760
8. Bailey C.L., Channick R.N., Auger W.R., et al. High probability perfusion lung scans in pulmonary venoocclusive disease. Am J Respir Crit Care Med 162 (2000) 1974-1978
9. Hoeper M.M., Schwarze M., Ehlerding S., et al. Long-term treatment of primary pulmonary hypertension with aerosolized iloprost, a prostacyclin analogue. N Engl J Med 342 (2000) 1866-1870
10. Humbert M., Sitbon O., and Simonneau G. Treatment of pulmonary arterial hypertension. N Engl J Med 351 (2004) 1425-1436
11. McLaughlin V.V., Shillington A., and Rich S. Survival in primary pulmonary hypertension: the impact of epoprostenol therapy. Circulation 106 (2002) 1477-1482
12. Okumura H., Nagaya N., Kyotani S., et al. Effects of continuous IV prostacyclin in a patient with pulmonary veno-occlusive disease. Chest 122 (2002) 1096-1098
13. Palmer S.M., Robinsom L.J., Wang A., et al. Massive pulmonary edema and death after prostacyclin infusion in a patient with pulmonary veno-occlusive disease. Chest 113 (1998) 237-240
14. Resten A., Maitre S., Humbert M., et al. Pulmonary arterial hypertension: Thin-section CT predictors of epoprostenol therapy failure. Radiology 222 (2002) 782-788
15. Resten A., Maitre S., Humbert M., et al. Pulmonary hypertension: CT of the chest in pulmonary venoocclusive disease. AJR 183 (2004) 65-70
16. Wagenvoort C.A., and Wagenvoort N. The pathology of pulmonary veno-occlusive disease. Virchows Arch A Pathol Anat Histol 364 (1974) 69-79
17. Dufour B., Maitre S., Humbert M., et al. High-resolution CT of the chest in four patients with pulmonary capillary hemangiomatosis or pulmonary venoocclusive disease. AJR 171 (1998) 1321-1324