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Clinical and Pathologic Features of Familial Interstitial Pneumonia

Division of Pulmonary, Allergy, and Critical Care Medicine, Department of Medicine, Department of Pathology, Department of Radiology, and Center for Human Genetics, Duke University Medical Center and VA Medical Centers, Durham, North Carolina; Vanderbilt University School of Medicine, Nashville, Tennessee; and National Jewish Medical and Research Center and University of Colorado Health Sciences Center, Denver, Colorado

Correspondence and requests for reprints should be addressed to Mark P. Steele, M.D., Box 3171, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, NC 27710. E-mail: mark.steele{at}duke.edu

Rationale: Several lines of evidence suggest that genetic factors and environmental exposures play a role in the development of pulmonary fibrosis.

Objectives: We evaluated families with 2 or more cases of idiopathic interstitial pneumonia among first-degree family members (familial interstitial pneumonia, or FIP), and identified 111 families with FIP having 309 affected and 360 unaffected individuals.

Methods: The presence of probable or definite FIP was based on medical record review in 28 cases (9.1%); clinical history, diffusing capacity of carbon monoxide (DL_CO), and chest X-ray in 16 cases (5.2%); clinical history, DL_CO, and high-resolution computed tomography chest scan in 191 cases (61.8%); clinical history and surgical lung biopsy in 56 cases (18.1%); and clinical history and autopsy in 18 cases (5.8%).

Results: Older age (68.3 vs. 53.1; p < 0.0001), male sex (55.7 vs. 37.2%; p < 0.0001), and having ever smoked cigarettes (67.3 vs. 34.1%; p < 0.0001) were associated with the development of FIP. After controlling for age and sex, having ever smoked cigarettes remained strongly associated with the development of FIP (odds ratio_adj, 3.6; 95% confidence interval, 1.3–9.8). Evidence of aggregation of disease was highly significant (p < 0.001) among sibling pairs, and 20 pedigrees demonstrated vertical transmission, consistent with autosomal dominant inheritance. Forty-five percent of pedigrees demonstrated phenotypic heterogeneity, with some pedigrees demonstrating several subtypes of idiopathic interstitial pneumonia occurring within the same families.

Conclusions: These findings suggest that FIP may be caused by an interaction between a specific environmental exposure and a gene (or genes) that predisposes to the development of several subtypes of idiopathic interstitial pneumonia.

Key Words: cigarette smoking • familial pulmonary fibrosis • genetics • pulmonary fibrosis

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