DIFFUSE INFILTRATIVE DISEASES OF THE LUNG
A large number of lung diseases are characterized by the replacement or infiltration of normal lung by abnormal tissue (Fig. 20-1). On rare occasions, the insulting agent may be well recognized, as in silicosis, although more often the causative process is unknown and only the response is obvious. The insult may cause lung injury by direct toxicity, as a result of an inflammatory response, or through an immunologically mediated reaction. Regardless of the mechanism of injury the influx of inflammatory cells into the lung in-terstitium, perivascular space, and alveolar space results in the development of an alveolitis or vasculitis and if carried to completion, lung fibrosis.
- Idiopathic Pulmonary Fibrosis
- EFFECTS OF PULMONARY HYPERTENSION ON PULMONARY FUNCTION
- EMBOLIC DISEASE
- Pulmonary Hemorrhagic Disorders
- Hypersensitivity Pneumonitis
- Pulmonary Vasculitis
- TREATMENT
- POSTCAPILLARY PULMONARY HYPERTENSION
- Sarcoidosis
- OBLITERATIVE OR OBSTRUCTIVE PULMONARY HYPERTENSION
- CAUSES OF PULMONARY HYPERTENSION
- CLINICAL FEATURES OF PULMONARY HYPERTENSION
- SPECIFIC ENTITIES - DISEASES WITH KFiOWIi ETIOLOGIES -
- PHYSIOLOGICAL EFFECTS OF PULMONARY HYPERTENSION ON CARDIAC FUNCTION
- HYPERKINETIC PULMONARY HYPERTENSION
- Other Clearly Extrinsic Causes of Diffuse Infiltrative Lung Disease
- CLINICAL MANIFESTATIONS
- Pulmonary Infiltrates with Eosinophilia PIE
- DIFFUSE INFILTRATIVE DISEASES OF THE LUNG
- DIFFUSE LUNG DISEASE OF UNKNOWN ETIOLOGY
- Miscellaneous