Antiphospholipid syndrome (pulmonary manifestations)

Pulmonary involvement in antiphospholipid syndrome is one of the most frequent arterial complications of antiphospholipid syndrome.

Pathology

It is essentially related to pulmonary arterial microthrombosis and may cause a wide spectrum of conditions, which include :

• pulmonary thromboembolic disease
• pulmonary hypertension
• acute respiratory distress syndrome
• primary thrombosis of large lung vessels
• microvascular pulmonary thrombosis
• diffuse alveolar hemorrhage
• fibrosing alveolitis
• postpartum lung syndrome
• pulmonary capillaritis