[Congenital obliterating bronchiolitis (report on the diagnosis of the disease in 2 late abortions)].
The clinical and histopathologic features are presented for two cases of congenital bronchiolitis obliterans which were diagnosed in fetal lungs from two miscarriages (in the 24th and 28th week of pregnancy respectively). Based on the relevant medical literature we regard a transplacental hematogenous viral infection in association with aspiration of infected amnionic fluid, following ascending bacterial chorioamnionitis as the etiopathogenic process underlying the lung alterations. In both cases an increased erythrocyte sedimentation rate was the only clinical evidence of a maternal disorder. Therefore this laboratory abnormality in a pregnant women makes a clinical examination advisable.
D000022:Abortion, Spontaneous; D000328:Adult; D001980:Bronchi / Q000473:pathology; D001991:Bronchitis / Q000151:congenital* / Q000473:pathology; D005260:Female; D005315:Fetal Diseases / Q000473:pathology*; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D011247:Pregnancy; D011262:Pregnancy Trimester, Second; D011650:Pulmonary Alveoli / Q000473:pathology; D011658:Pulmonary Fibrosis / Q000151:congenital* / Q000209:etiology / Q000473:pathology
Zur Kenntnis der Bronchiolitis obliterans connata (Bericht über das Krankheitsbild bei 2 Spätaborten).