PT  - JOURNAL ARTICLE
AU  - L Hughes-Davies
AU  - G Kocjan
AU  - M F Spittle
AU  - R F Miller
TI  - Occult alveolar haemorrhage in bronchopulmonary Kaposi's sarcoma.
AID  - 10.1136/jcp.45.6.536
DP  - 1992 Jun 01
TA  - Journal of Clinical Pathology
PG  - 536--537
VI  - 45
IP  - 6
4099  - http://jcp.bmj.com/content/45/6/536.short
4100  - http://jcp.bmj.com/content/45/6/536.full
SO  - J Clin Pathol1992 Jun 01; 45
AB  - Evidence of occult alveolar haemorrhage was sought by Perls's staining of bronchoalveolar lavage fluid to detect haemosiderin laden macrophages in 63 human immunodeficiency virus positive (HIV-1) men who underwent bronchoscopy. Twenty three patients had bronchopulmonary Kaposi's sarcoma; occult alveolar haemorrhage was present in 16 of these (including two in whom no tracheobronchial lesions were evident at bronchoscopy, but in whom the diagnosis was confirmed at necropsy). Forty patients had other diagnoses including Pneumocystis carinii pneumonia and bacterial pneumonia; 18 had occult haemorrhage. Occult alveolar haemorrhage seems to be a non-specific finding in HIV-1 positive men undergoing bronchoscopy.