Study of intrapulmonary vasculature in some chronic lung diseases

ABSTRACT

The intrapulmonary vasculature of two hundred autopsy cases was studied and correlated with the disease process present in the lung tissues. In this study, we observed arterialization of Pulmonary veins, atherosclerosis of pulmonary arteries, medial hypertrophy of muscular pulmonary arteries, endarteritis and angiomatoids in the intrapulmonary vessels in some chronic lung diseases. Also there was a statistically significant correlation between medial hypertrophy of arteries and elastosis in muscular pulmonary arteries