Tag Archives: Interstitial lung disease

March 2021—If you see vascular changes, report them. That is the advice Kristen L. Veraldi, MD, PhD, pulmonary critical care physician, University of Pittsburgh Simmons Center for Interstitial Lung Disease, gave last fall in a CAP20 virtual session on vascular changes in lung biopsies—when and what to report.

July 2019—Most fresh blood in lung wedge biopsies is artifact, but when it’s diffuse alveolar hemorrhage, the pathologist must call the clinician because DAH patients can go downhill fast. Maxwell L. Smith, MD, a consultant in the Department of Laboratory Medicine and Pathology at Mayo Clinic Arizona and associate professor, Mayo Clinic School of Medicine, shared that pearl from one of the 10 consultation cases he and Brandon T. Larsen, MD, PhD, co-presented in their CAP18 session on diagnosing interstitial lung disease. Their discussion of two of those cases follows.

June 2019—The pathologic approach to evaluating specimens as part of a workup for medical lung disease demands a different strategy than is typically used for the patient with a question of neoplasia, says Brandon T. Larsen, MD, PhD.