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ArticleRespiratory medicine case reports2020

Pulmonary capillary hemangiomatosis-predominant vasculopathy in a patient with rheumatoid arthritis-associated interstitial lung disease: An autopsy report.

Junichi Nakamura, Ichizo Tsujino, Gaku Yamamoto, Toshitaka Nakaya, Kei Takahashi, Hirokazu Kimura, Takahiro Sato, Taku Watanabe, Shimpei Nakagawa, Noriyuki Otsuka and 2 more

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Article in Respiratory medicine case reports, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 2 papers.

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2 citing papers in PubMed, 1 citations in OpenAlex.

  1. Pulmonary arterial hypertension with signs of venous/capillary involvement in connective tissue diseases: paradigms and paradoxes.European respiratory review : an official journal of the European Respiratory Society · 2026
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12 authors at 3 institutions in 1 country.

Junichi NakamuraFirst Department of Medicine, Hokkaido University Hospital, Kita-14, Nishi-5, Kita-ku, Sapporo, 060-8648, Japan.
Ichizo TsujinoFirst Department of Medicine, Hokkaido University Hospital, Kita-14, Nishi-5, Kita-ku, Sapporo, 060-8648, Japan.
Gaku YamamotoFirst Department of Medicine, Hokkaido University Hospital, Kita-14, Nishi-5, Kita-ku, Sapporo, 060-8648, Japan.
Toshitaka NakayaFirst Department of Medicine, Hokkaido University Hospital, Kita-14, Nishi-5, Kita-ku, Sapporo, 060-8648, Japan.
Kei TakahashiFirst Department of Medicine, Hokkaido University Hospital, Kita-14, Nishi-5, Kita-ku, Sapporo, 060-8648, Japan.
Hirokazu KimuraFirst Department of Medicine, Hokkaido University Hospital, Kita-14, Nishi-5, Kita-ku, Sapporo, 060-8648, Japan.
Takahiro SatoDepartment of Cardiology, KKR Sapporo Medical Center, 3-40 1-jo, 6-chome, Toyohira-ku, Sapporo, 062-0931, Japan.
Taku WatanabeFirst Department of Medicine, Hokkaido University Hospital, Kita-14, Nishi-5, Kita-ku, Sapporo, 060-8648, Japan.
Shimpei NakagawaDepartment of Pathology, Faculty of Medicine and Graduate School of Medicine, Hokkaido University, Kita-15, Nishi-7, Kita-ku, Sapporo, 060-8638, Japan.
Noriyuki OtsukaDepartment of Pathology, Faculty of Medicine and Graduate School of Medicine, Hokkaido University, Kita-15, Nishi-7, Kita-ku, Sapporo, 060-8638, Japan.
Hiroshi OhiraFirst Department of Medicine, Hokkaido University Hospital, Kita-14, Nishi-5, Kita-ku, Sapporo, 060-8648, Japan.
Satoshi KonnoFirst Department of Medicine, Hokkaido University Hospital, Kita-14, Nishi-5, Kita-ku, Sapporo, 060-8648, Japan.
Hokkaido University Hospital · JPHokkaido University · JPNTT Medical Center · JP

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Pulmonary capillary hemangiomatosis (PCH) is a rare cause of pulmonary hypertension (PH) associated with poor prognosis. Clinically, it is characterized by severe hypoxemia, centrilobular ground-glass opacities on computed tomography, and pulmonary congestion triggered by pulmonary vasodilating therapy. In some cases, PCH has been reported to develop with other disorders including connective tissue disease; however, to date, no reports have described PCH in a patient with rheumatoid arthritis. We report a case of a 59-year-old male PCH patient with rheumatoid arthritis and associated pulmonary fibrosis. He was initially diagnosed with severe group 3 PH and received sildenafil, which generated a favorable hemodynamic response. However, 5 years later, his pulmonary hemodynamics deteriorated, and he died at the age of 67. An autopsy was performed, and thickening of alveolar septa and capillary proliferation, pathological features of PCH, were extensively observed in both lungs. We discuss when PCH developed, how sildenafil improved his hemodynamics, and how PCH could be clinically detected by noninvasive evaluations.

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Computed tomography diffusion capacity of the lung for carbon monoxidePulmonary capillary hemangiomatosisPulmonary hypertensionPulmonary veno-occlusive disease

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