Table 2 Histologic features of pleuroparenchymal fibroelastosis in restrictive allograft syndrome patients
Pleural fibrosis | 16/16 (100%) |
Parenchymal fibroelastosis | 15/16 (93.8%) |
 Subpleural | 14/16 (87.5%) |
 Paraseptal | 7/16 (43.8%) |
 Centrilobular | 7/16 (43.8%) |
 Parenchymal | 5/16 (31.3%) |
 Grade of parenchymal fibroelastosis (mean±s.d.) | 1.77±1.22 |
Obliterative bronchiolitis | 14/16 (87.5%) |
 Within areas of fibroelastosis | 9/16 (56.3%) |
 Outside areas of fibroelastosis | 12/16 (75%) |
Diffuse alveolar damage, acute and/or organizing | 13/16 (81.3%) |
Findings at interface of fibroelastosis with unaffected lung tissue | |
 Fibroblastic foci | 6/16 (37.5%) |
 Diffuse alveolar damage | 7/16 (43.8%) |
Other findings | |
 Thromboemboli, acute and/or organizing | 6/16 (37.5%) |
 Acute bronchopneumonia | 6/16 (37.5%) |
 Areas of nonspecific interstitial pneumonia-like fibrosis | 4/16 (25%) |
 Microscopic honeycomb change | 1/16 (6.3%) |
