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