ArticleDiagnostic pathology2019
Concordance between sequential transbronchial lung cryobiopsy and surgical lung biopsy in patients with diffuse interstitial lung disease.
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- Cryobiopsy at the dawn of fibrosis: unlocking early diagnosis and therapeutic windows.Frontiers in medicine · 2026Review
- The Impact of Adverse Events in Transbronchial Lung Cryobiopsy on Histopathological Diagnosis.Journal of clinical medicine · 2025Article
- The Characteristic of Transbronchial Lung Cryobiopsy in the Pathological Diagnosis of Hypersensitivity Pneumonitis.Journal of clinical medicine · 2023Article
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- Transbronchial cryobiopsy in unexplained, severe ARDS: a single center retrospective case series.BMC pulmonary medicine · 2023Article
- Sensitivity of transbronchial lung cryobiopsy in the diagnosis of different interstitial lung diseases.Scientific reports · 2022Article
- Feasibility, utility, and safety of transbronchial cryobiopsy for interstitial lung diseases in Japan.Multidisciplinary respiratory medicine · 2021Article
- Diagnostic and Therapeutic Applications of Extracellular Vesicles in Interstitial Lung Diseases.Diagnostics (Basel, Switzerland) · 2021Review
- Idiopathic desquamative interstitial pneumonia diagnosed using transbronchial lung cryobiopsy: A case report.Respiratory medicine case reports · 2021Article
- Usefulness of surgical lung biopsies after cryobiopsies when pathological results are inconclusive or show a pattern suggestive of a nonspecific interstitial pneumonia.Respiratory research · 2020Observational
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Abstract
backgroundIncreasing evidence indicates the utility of transbronchial lung cryobiopsy (TBLC) for the diagnosis of interstitial lung disease (ILD). However, only one study has compared TBLC and surgical lung biopsy (SLB) performed on the same patients.
methodsWe identified seven patients with ILD with TBLC and SLB. We evaluated the clinical characteristics and made a pathological diagnosis based on the official ATS/ERS/JRS/ALAT clinical practice guideline of idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis with both TBLC and SLB.
resultsSix cases were diagnosed as Usual interstitial pneumonia (UIP) in both TBLC and SLB. One case was diagnosed as indeterminate for UIP with TBLC and probable UIP with SLB. Etiological diagnosis with TBLC and SLB were concordant in 2 cases of idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis (IPF) but discordant for other diagnoses. Major histological findings of UIP including dense fibrosis, peripheral distribution, and fibroblastic foci showed high concordance between TBLC and SLB, which implies that TBLC can reliably detect these features. In contrast, loose fibrosis, cellular infiltration, and airway disease showed poor concordance between the two methods.
conclusionOur study showed that TBLC is useful for UIP diagnosis but not for other ILD. With a multidisciplinary approach, diagnosis of IPF may be determined by TBLC, whereas ILD other than IPF may require SLB.
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