Idiopathic Pulmonary Fibrosis
A large number of patients with diffuse interstitial lung disease will not fit into any of the previously mentioned categories. These patients, usually middle aged with no sex predominance, present with dyspnea and x-ray evidence of interstitial disease. Rarely, the disease progresses very rapidly to death from respiratory failure within six months of the onset of symptoms (Ham-man-Rich syndrome). When the disease is more slowly progressive, it is termed idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis or cryptogenic fibrosing alveolitis.
- Miscellaneous
- Pulmonary Hemorrhagic Disorders
- Hypersensitivity Pneumonitis
- Pulmonary Vasculitis
- SPECIFIC ENTITIES - DISEASES WITH KFiOWIi ETIOLOGIES -
- Pulmonary Infiltrates with Eosinophilia PIE
- Sarcoidosis
- PHYSIOLOGICAL EFFECTS OF PULMONARY HYPERTENSION ON CARDIAC FUNCTION
- TREATMENT
- POSTCAPILLARY PULMONARY HYPERTENSION
- HYPERKINETIC PULMONARY HYPERTENSION
- CLINICAL MANIFESTATIONS
- OBLITERATIVE OR OBSTRUCTIVE PULMONARY HYPERTENSION
- EMBOLIC DISEASE
- DIFFUSE LUNG DISEASE OF UNKNOWN ETIOLOGY
- Other Clearly Extrinsic Causes of Diffuse Infiltrative Lung Disease
- EFFECTS OF PULMONARY HYPERTENSION ON PULMONARY FUNCTION
- CAUSES OF PULMONARY HYPERTENSION
- CLINICAL FEATURES OF PULMONARY HYPERTENSION
- Idiopathic Pulmonary Fibrosis
- DIFFUSE INFILTRATIVE DISEASES OF THE LUNG