History
The condition was first described as "brown lung induration" by Rudolf Virchow in 1864 in patients after their death. Wilhelm Ceelen later correlated his findings to the clinical symptoms of two children who died of IPH in 1931. The first living patient was diagnosed by Jan Waldenström in 1944. It has been given several names, including:
- Haemosiderin accumulation
- Pulmonary haemosiderosis
- Brown induration of lung
- Essential brown induration of lung
- Ceelen-Gellerstedt syndrome (after physicians Wilhelm Ceelen and Nils Gellerstedt)
Read more about this topic: Idiopathic Pulmonary Haemosiderosis
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