Table 3.
Clinical Data From Published Reports on AIP*
| Biopsy Type | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Study/Year | Patients, No. | Age, yr | SLBx | Autopsy | Adm-LBx, d | Steroid Tx, % | Adm-Steroid | Mortality Rate, % |
| Hamman and Rich4/1944 | 4 | 43 | 0 | 4 | NA | NA | NA | 100 |
| Katzenstein et al7/1986 | 8 | 28 | 8 | 0 | 13 | NA | NA | 88 |
| Olson et al8/1990 | 29 | 50 | 23 | 6 | 10 | 69 | NA | 59 |
| Primack et al9/1993 | 9 | 65 | 5 | 4 | NA | NA | NA | 89 |
| Ichikado et al5/1997 | 14 | 53 | 3 | 11 | NA | NA | NA | 100 |
| Johkoh et al6/1999 | 36 | 61 | 11 | 25 | NA | NA | NA | 89 |
| Vourelkis et al10/2000 | 13 | 54 | 13 | 0 | 13 | 90† | 15 | 33‡ |
| Ichikado et al21/2002 | 31 | 60 | 10 | 17 | NA | 100 | NA | 68 |
| Quefatieh et al12/2003 | 8 | 48 | 8 | 0 | 8 | 100 | NA | 13 |
| This study | 10 | 68 | 10 | 0 | 4 | 100 | 3 | 20 |
*
SLBx = surgical lung biopsy; Adm-LBx = time interval from admission to lung biopsy; Tx = treatment; NA = not available. See Table 1 for abbreviation not used in the text.
†
Therapy is not known for three patients.
‡
Outcome is not known for one patient.