Pulmonary vasculopathy in explanted lungs from patients with interstitial lung disease undergoing lung transplantation.
Yaniv DotanJeffrey StewartAndrew GangemiHe WangAmandeep AnejaBhaidharbi ChakrabortyChandra DassHuaqing ZhaoNathaniel MarchettiGilbert D'AlonzoFrancis C CordovaGerard CrinerAlbert James MamaryPublished in: BMJ open respiratory research (2021)
Patients with end stage ILD had severe pulmonary arterial vasculopathy in their explanted lungs irrespective of the presence and/or severity of PH as measured by RHC. These findings suggest that advanced pulmonary arterial vasculopathy is common in patients with advanced fibrotic ILD and may develop prior to the clinical detection of PH by RHC.