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Pages 205-210 (September - October 1981)
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Vol. 17. Issue 5.
Pages 205-210 (September - October 1981)
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Las angeitis granulomatosas pulmonares
Pulmonary granulomatous angiitis
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J. Sauret Valet, R. Bordes Prats
Servicios de Aparato Respiratorio y Anatomía Patológica. Hospital de la Santa Cruz y San Pablo. Barcelona
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Como angeítis granulomatosas pulmonares se engloban a una serie de procesos patológicos caracterizados, desde el punto de vista histopatológico, por la presencia de lesiones vasculares que afectan preferentemente a los pulmones, con necrosis del parénquima y un infiltrado celular perivascular, que es el que marca la diferencia primordial con otros tipos de vasculitis.

Las enfermedades más representativas son las granulomatosis de Wegener, la granulomatosis linfomatoidea, y la que recientemente se ha descrito con la denominación de angeítis granulomatosa linfocítica benigna.

En este trabajo se presentan dos granulomatosis de Wegener y una granulomatosis linfomatoidea, todas con estudio post-mortem.

En uno de los casos de granulomatosis de Wegener se objetivaron mínimas alteraciones en la radiografía de tórax, pese a que las manifestaciones clínicas fueron importantes y que la necropsia demostrara amplia afectación pulmonar. En el caso de granulomatosis linfomatoidea, se pudo constatar una respuesta muy eficaz al tratamiento con citostáticos y corticoides, con remisión completa de las lesiones, siendo la causa del éxitus una neumonía masiva bilateral.

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«Pulmonary granulomatous angiitis» ineludes a series of pathological processes characterized, from the histopathological viewpoint, by the presence of vascular lesions that preferably affect the lungs, with necrosis of the parenchyma and a perivascular cellular infiltration, which is what marks the fundamental difference with other types of vasculitis.

The most representative diseases are Wegener’s granulomatosis, lymphomatoid granulomatosis and what has recently been described with the denomination benign lymphocytic granulomatous angiitis.

In this paper the authors present two cases f Wegener’s granulomatosis and one case of lymphomatoid granulomatosis, all with autopsies.

For one of the cases of Wegener’s granulomatosis minimum alterations were seen in the chest X-ray, in spite of the fact that the clinical manifestations were important and that the autopsy showed ampie pulmonary affectation. With respect to the case of lymphomatoid granulomatosis, the authors could see a very effective response to treatment with cytostatic agents and corticoids, with complete remission of the lesions. The cause of death was massive bilateral pneumonia.

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