Respiratory Medicine MCQ 003

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A 42 year old black woman presents with shortness of breath. She is a non-smoker. A diffuse interstitial pattern with small parenchymal nodules is seen on chest radiograph, as well as massively enlarged hilar lymph nodes. Based on your suspected clinical diagnosis, what do you expect to find on transbronchial biopsy of the lung?

A. Loss of alveolar walls with minimal changes in the airways
B. Non caseating granulomata
C. Many neutrophils in alveoli with edema
D. Type II pneumocyte proliferation with chronic interstitial inflammation and intranuclear viral inclusions
E. An increased Reid index

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