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'''Lung transplant pathology''' is a little subspecialty in the subspecialty of [[lung]] pathology.
'''Lung transplant pathology''' is a little subspecialty in the subspecialty of [[lung]] pathology.
==Classification - rejection==
Types:<ref name=pmid18096473>{{cite journal |author=Stewart S, Fishbein MC, Snell GI, ''et al.'' |title=Revision of the 1996 working formulation for the standardization of nomenclature in the diagnosis of lung rejection |journal=J. Heart Lung Transplant. |volume=26 |issue=12 |pages=1229–42 |year=2007 |month=December |pmid=18096473 |doi=10.1016/j.healun.2007.10.017 |url=}}</ref>
*A. Acute rejection.
**A0 (none), A1 (minimal), A2 (mild), A3 (moderate), A4 (severe).
*B. Small airway inflammation/lymphocytic bronchiolitis.
**B0 (none), B1R (low-grade), B2R (high-grade), BX (cannot be graded).
*C. Chronic airway rejection - broncholitis obliterans.
**C0 (absent), C1 (present).
*D. Chronic vascular rejection.


==Rejection==
==Rejection==
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===Microscopic===
===Microscopic===
Features:<ref>{{Ref PPP|407}}</ref>
Features:<ref name=Ref_PPP407>{{Ref PPP|407}}</ref>
*Perivascular lymphocytes / plasmacytoid cells.
*Perivascular lymphocytes / plasmacytoid cells.
*+/-Macrophages.
*+/-Macrophages.
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*[http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Lung_transplant_rejection_-_intermed_mag.jpg Rejection - intermed. mag. (WC)].
*[http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Lung_transplant_rejection_-_intermed_mag.jpg Rejection - intermed. mag. (WC)].
*[http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Lung_transplant_rejection_-_very_high_mag.jpg Rejection - very high mag. (WC)].
*[http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Lung_transplant_rejection_-_very_high_mag.jpg Rejection - very high mag. (WC)].
==Post-transplant lymphoproliferative disorder==
{{Main|Post-transplant lymphoproliferative disorder}}
*A rare complication of transplants.
*Similar to [[DLBCL]].


==See also==
==See also==
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==References==
==References==
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{{reflist|2}}


[[Category:Pulmonary pathology]]
[[Category:Pulmonary pathology]]
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