Disease Information for Interstitial acute lung disease (Clinical Manifestations)

acute, Disease Interstitial Lung, Diseases Interstitial Lung, ILD, ILD Interstitial lung disease, ILD Intrstitial lung disease, INTERSTITIAL LUNG DIS, interstitial lung disease, Interstitial lung disease (disorder), Interstitial Lung Diseases, Interstitial pulmonary disease unspecified, LUNG DIS INTERSTITIAL, LUNG DISEASE INTERSTITIAL, Lung Diseases Interstitial

Pneumonia, Interstitial;Bronchiolitis Obliterans Organizing Pneumonia (Boop);Chronic Fibrous Pneumonia; Diffuse Alveolar Damage; Fibrous Interstitial Pneumonia; Giant Cell Interstitial Pneumonia; Idiopathic Interstitial Pneumonia; <br>

Usual Interstitial Pneumonia (UIP); Subdivisions: Acute Interstitial Pneumonia (AIP); Cryptogenic Organizing Pneumonia (COP); Desquamative Interstitial Pneumonia (DIP); <br>

Idiopathic Pulmonary Fibrosis (IPF); Lymphoid Interstitial Pneumonia (LIP); Nonspecific Interstitial Pneumonia (NSIP); <br>

Respiratory Bronchiolitis-Associated Interstitial Lung Disease (RB-ILD); The inflammatory process, if it lasts long enough, may harden the fluid and the resultant firm, fibrous substance (scarring) may replace the lung tissue; If the scarring is extensive, the air sacs may be destroyed over time and the resultant space replaced by cysts; The Idiopathic Interstitial Pneumonias (IIPs) comprise a number of clinical entities that are each rare and sufficiently different from one another to be considered as distinct disorders; [NORD 2005]----------------------------------------------.Interstitial pneumonias are a confusing and frustrating set of diseases both for the treating physician and for the diagnostic pathologist; One source of the confusion has been the lack of overlapping terms that treating physicians and pathologists use; For example, idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis (IPF) is a clinical term describing a slowly progressive, chronic interstitial pneumonia; Since many of the interstitial pneumonias, including UIP, DIP, and NSIP, fall under this category, it is a non-specific term; Most pathologists who are experts in lung pathology use the terms IPF and UIP to mean the same disease process; To complicate matters even further, European clinicians utilize the term cryptogenic fibrosing alveolitis for IPF; Pathologists also share in the confusion; Bronchiolitis obliterans with organizing pneunomina (BOOP) is no longer used because it has been considered a mixture of terms; Lymphocytic interstitial pneumonia (LIP) is now considered a lymphoproliferative disease; Giant cell interstitial pneumonitis (GIP) is now considered a hard metal pneumoconiosis; The symptoms vary for each of the pneumonias but most are characterized by a slowly progressive shortness of breath; Chest radiographs reveal a hazy ground glass appearance with linear opacities; Most of the diseases are progressive and are treated with corticosteroids;-----------[DoctorsDoctor-com 2005]--------

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