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  • Title: Familial idiopathic interstitial pneumonia: histopathology and survival in 30 patients.
    Author: Leslie KO, Cool CD, Sporn TA, Curran-Everett D, Steele MP, Brown KK, Wahidi MM, Schwartz DA.
    Journal: Arch Pathol Lab Med; 2012 Nov; 136(11):1366-76. PubMed ID: 23106582.
    Abstract:
    CONTEXT: Familial idiopathic interstitial pneumonia (F-IIP) describes the unexplained occurrence of diffuse parenchymal lung disease in related individuals. Prevailing wisdom suggests that the histopathology of F-IIP is indistinguishable from that of idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis, namely, usual interstitial pneumonia (UIP). OBJECTIVE: To define the histopathology of F-IIP in lung tissue samples. DESIGN: Tissue sections from 30 patients with F-IIP, enrolled in a national research program, were evaluated by 3 pulmonary pathologists using 15 predefined histopathologic features. Each feature was recorded independently before a final diagnosis was chosen from a limited list dichotomized between UIP or "not UIP." These 2 groups were then compared to survival. RESULTS: The consensus diagnosis for the F-IIP cohort was an unclassifiable parenchymal fibrosis (60%), with a high incidence of histopathologic honeycombing, fibroblast foci, and smooth muscle in fibrosis. Usual interstitial pneumonia, strictly defined, was identified in less than half of the F-IIP cases (range, 23%-50%). Interobserver agreement was fair (κ  =  0.37) for 2 observers for the overall diagnosis of UIP. Findings unexpected in UIP were prevalent. The survival for the entire F-IIP cohort was poor, with an estimated mortality of 93% and a median age at death of 60.9 years. Subjects with UIP had a shorter survival and younger age at death. CONCLUSIONS: Pulmonary fibrosis was the dominant histopathology identified in our patients, but diagnostic features of UIP were seen in less than 50% of the samples. Overall survival was poor, with mortality accelerated apparently by the presence of a UIP pattern of disease.
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