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Pre-transplant computed tomography images showing a dilated pulmonary artery suggestive of pulmonary hypertension (left) and extensive, basal-predominant, centrilobular ground glass opacities with smooth septal thickening (right).
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Computed tomography images revealed extensive basal-predominant ground glass opacities (see Fig. 1).
Gross (left) and microscopic (right) pathology from explanted native lungs revealing diffuse homogeneous alveolar septal fibrosis with clusters of alveolar hemosiderin-laden macrophages and interstitial hemosiderin deposition.
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Explant pathology revealed end-stage disease, diffuse alveolar septal fibrosis, extensive interstitial and airspace hemosiderin deposition, and marked fibrointimal thickening and medial hyperplasia of the pulmonary arteries (see Fig. 2).