Hepatization of lungs

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Hepatization is conversion into a substance resembling the

red blood cells, neutrophils, and fibrin in the pulmonary alveolus/ alveoli; it precedes gray hepatization, where the red cells have been broken down leaving a fibrinosuppurative exudate. The main cause is lobar pneumonia

. Transformation from Red hepatization to gray hepatization is an example for acute inflammation turning into a chronic inflammation.

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