title: [Classification of pulmonary alveolar proteinosis in newborns, infants, and children].
abstract: Pulmonary alveolar proteinoses are rare pulmonary diseases characterised by an intraalveolar accumulation of surfactant protein A. Subtyping of alveolar proteinoses: Type I alveolar proteinoses: severe respiratory insufficiency in newborns, which will take a lethal course without lung transplant; hereditary SP-B deficiency and an intraalveolar accumulation of N-terminal incompletely processed SP-C. Type II alveolar proteinoses: occur in newborns and infants; often take a lethal course; show intraalveolar accumulation of precursors of SP-B and mature SP-B as well as an accompanying interstitial lung disease of variable severity. Type III alveolar proteinoses: in infants and children; do not generally take a lethal course; they are characterised by an intraalveolar accumulation of precursors of SP-B and mature SP-B without accompanying interstitial lung disease. "Cryptogenic" congenital, acquired (idiopathic), and secondary type III alveolar proteinoses can be distinguished. In newborns, infants, and children with pulmonary alveolar proteinosis, a detailed pathological-anatomical examination including immunohistochemical and molecular genetic analyses, should be performed in order to optimise the therapeutical management.
authors.affiliation: Institut für Pathologie, Berufsgenossenschaftliche Kliniken Bergmannsheil Bochum. Frank.E.Brasch@ruhr-uni-bochum.de
authors.forename: F
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Brasch
authors.forename: K-M
authors.initials: KM
authors.lastname: Müller
mesh_terms: D002648:Child; D003937:Diagnosis, Differential; D006801:Humans; D007223:Infant; D007231:Infant, Newborn; D011649:Pulmonary Alveolar Proteinosis / Q000145:classification / Q000151:congenital / Q000473:pathology*