Pathologist's Role in the Diagnosis of ILD -
Now and in the Future
PPS Companion Society Meeting
USCAP
109th Annual Meeting
February 29, 2020, 7:00 - 10:00 PM
Los Angeles Convention Center
LACC 408 B
Session Chairs:
Mary B. Beasley, MD Mount Sinai Medical Center, New York, USA
Wendy Cooper, PhD, MBBS, FRCPA Royal Prince Alfred Hospital,
Sydney, Australia
Presentations
Pathologist's Role in the diagnosis of ILD - Now and in the Future
Wendy Cooper, PhD, MBBS, FRCPA Royal Prince Alfred Hospital,
Sydney, Australia
Mary B. Beasley, MD Mount Sinai Medical Center, New York, USA
UIP or not UIP That is the Question
Kirk D. Jones, MD University of California, San Francisco, USA
Donald G. Guinee, Jr., MD Virginia Mason Medical Center, Seattle, USA
Teri J. Franks, MD
The Joint Pathology Center, Silver Spring, USA
Cryobiopsies for ILD Diagnosis Results of the COLDICE Trial
Annabelle Mahar, MBBS Royal Prince Alfred Hospital, Sydney, Australia
The Pathology of Vaping Associated Acute Lung Injury
Maxwell L. Smith, MD Mayo Clinic Scottsdale, USA
Uncommon ILDs or ILD Mimics that Should Be on Your Radar
Thomas V. Colby, MD Mayo Clinic, USA
Pulmonary Pathology Evening Specialty Conference
USCAP
109th Annual Meeting
March 1, 2020, 7:00 - 10:00 PM
Los Angeles Convention Center
LACC 408 A
Session Chair:
David Hwang, MD Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre Toronto, Canada
One of These Things Doesn't Belong: Ectopic, Extrinsic & Exogenous Entities in the Lung
William D. Wallace, MD Keck School of Medicine of USC, Los Angeles, USA
Margaret Mary Kelly, MBChB, PhD FRCP University of Calgary, Calgary, Canada
Prodipto Pal, MD, PhD University Health Network, Toronto, Canada
Marina Vivero, MD Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, USA
Alberto M. Marchevsky, MD Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, Los Angeles, USA
February Case of the Month
Clinical History: A young man in his 20s presented with fever, nausea, dyspnea and dry cough for 5 days. On examination, he was febrile and hypoxic on room air. Chest CT showed bilateral ground-glass opacities with areas of consolidation and some degree of subpleural sparing (Figure 1). Laboratory work-up showed leukocytosis, elevated ESR and elevated C-reactive protein. The patient was well prior to onset of these symptoms, with no significant chronic medical issues. There was no history of HIV/AIDS or other immunosuppression. The patient “smoked weed” daily and also vaped tetrahydrocannabinol (THC) frequently, the last episode being 7 days prior to onset of his symptoms. He was initially treated for presumed pneumonia but after a lack of response to treatment (and negative serologies and cultures), bronchoscopy with bronchoalveolar lavage (BAL) and transbronchial lung biopsies was performed. The BAL fluid revealed predominantly macrophages (Figure 2) without large or coarse vacuoles. Cultures of the BAL fluid were negative. Images from the transbronchial lung biopsy are shown in Figures 3-6Click here to see more.
