Research Article
The Role of Open Lung Biopsy in Critically Ill Patients with Hypoxic Respiratory Failure: A Retrospective Cohort Study
Table 2
Pathological results of open lung biopsy specimens.
| Pathological diagnosis | Total cohort (76) |
| Diffuse alveolar damage, (%) | 24 (31.6) | Malignancy, (%) | 5 (6.6) | Interstitial lung disease, (%) | 23 (30.3) | Usual interstitial pneumonia | 8 (10.5) | Nonspecific interstitial pneumonia | 4 (5.3) | Bronchiolitis obliterans organizing pneumonia | 10 (13.2) | Hypersensitivity pneumonitis | 1 (1.3) | Infectious disease, (%) | 15 (19.7) | Pneumocystis jiroveci | 9 (11.8) | Cytomegalovirus | 2 (2.6) | Invasive aspergillosis | 1 (1.3) | Miliary tuberculosis | 2 (1.3) | Bronchopneumonia | 1 (1.3) | Other, (%) | 12 (15.8) | Vasculitis | 6 (7.9) | Pneumonitis | 2 (2.6) | Amyloidosis | 1 (1.3) | Drug toxicity | 2 (2.6) | Pulmonary edema | 1 (1.3) |
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: malignancy includes hematological malignancy and solid tumor.
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