TY - JOUR T1 - A 45-year-old female with a history of dyspnoea JF - Breathe JO - Breathe SP - 277 LP - 280 DO - 10.1183/18106838.0203.277 VL - 2 IS - 3 AU - K.C. Sumino AU - M.M. Chakinala Y1 - 2006/03/01 UR - http://breathe.ersjournals.com/content/2/3/277.abstract N2 - A 45-year old female originally presented in January 2001 with a 25 pack-year history of tobacco use, a 2-year history of dyspnoea on exertion, fatigue and polycythaemia. Right heart catheterisation showed a pulmonary artery pressure of 54/26 mmHg (mean 37) with a cardiac index of 2.3 L·min-1·m-2. An open lung biopsy was performed and the samples from histopathological examination are shown in figure 1. ER -