A lung biopsy would show thickened alveolar septa with fluffy eosinophilic exudate in the alveoli.
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Any approach to lung biopsy risks causing a pneumothorax.
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_In early May, a 59-year-old patient, Jake Session, had a lung biopsy at Long Island Jewish.
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A mixture of lung biopsies and lung-function tests showed the cyclosporine prevented chronic rejection, he added.
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A lung biopsy may also be indicated.
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When fibrosis develops in chronic hypersensitivity pneumonitis, the differential diagnosis in lung biopsies includes the idiopathic interstitial pneumonias.
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Langhans cells are often found in transbronchial lung biopsies or lymph node biopsies in patients suffering from sarcoidosis.
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Exclusion of infection is therefore an important step in management, but confirmation of the diagnosis requires lung biopsy.
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Lung biopsies performed on patients with NSIP reveal two different disease patterns-cellular and fibrosing-which are associated with different prognoses.
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Several tests are often needed to correctly diagnose bronchiolitis obliterans, including high-resolution CT ( HRCT ), and lung biopsy.
