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.
- Pulmonary Hemorrhagic Disorders
- SPECIFIC ENTITIES - DISEASES WITH KFiOWIi ETIOLOGIES -
- HYPERKINETIC PULMONARY HYPERTENSION
- OBLITERATIVE OR OBSTRUCTIVE PULMONARY HYPERTENSION
- Hypersensitivity Pneumonitis
- Pulmonary Vasculitis
- CAUSES OF PULMONARY HYPERTENSION
- DIFFUSE INFILTRATIVE DISEASES OF THE LUNG
- EMBOLIC DISEASE
- CLINICAL MANIFESTATIONS
- TREATMENT
- POSTCAPILLARY PULMONARY HYPERTENSION
- Idiopathic Pulmonary Fibrosis
- Sarcoidosis
- CLINICAL FEATURES OF PULMONARY HYPERTENSION
- DIFFUSE LUNG DISEASE OF UNKNOWN ETIOLOGY
- Miscellaneous
- EFFECTS OF PULMONARY HYPERTENSION ON PULMONARY FUNCTION
- Other Clearly Extrinsic Causes of Diffuse Infiltrative Lung Disease
- PHYSIOLOGICAL EFFECTS OF PULMONARY HYPERTENSION ON CARDIAC FUNCTION
- Pulmonary Infiltrates with Eosinophilia PIE