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Interstitial lung disease: progress and problems.
| Content Provider | Semantic Scholar |
|---|---|
| Author | Bourke, S. J. |
| Copyright Year | 2006 |
| Abstract | Interstitial lung disease involves all areas of medicine as it often occurs in patients with comorbidities or as a consequence of systemic diseases and their treatment. Typically the physician is faced with a breathless patient, a diffusely abnormal chest radiograph, and a wide differential diagnosis. Progress has been made in using high resolution computed tomography as the key investigation in characterising the pattern and extent of the disease. Bronchoalveolar lavage is particularly important in excluding infection as a cause of diffuse lung infiltrates. Surgical lung biopsies have led to a new classification system for the range of histopathological patterns of disease that were previously known by the collective term cryptogenic fibrosing alveolitis. Problems persist in deciding when a surgical lung biopsy is clinically justified, in understanding the pathogenesis of these diseases, and in finding more effective treatments. |
| Starting Page | 31 |
| Ending Page | 41 |
| Page Count | 11 |
| File Format | PDF HTM / HTML |
| Alternate Webpage(s) | http://pmj.bmj.com/content/postgradmedj/82/970/494.full.pdf |
| PubMed reference number | 16891438v1 |
| Volume Number | 82 |
| Issue Number | 970 |
| Journal | Postgraduate medical journal |
| Language | English |
| Access Restriction | Open |
| Subject Keyword | Alveolitis Biopsy Chest Pain Classification Differential Diagnosis Dyspnea Endocrine System Diseases Idiopathic Pulmonary Fibrosis Infiltration Irrigation Lung diseases Patients Plain x-ray Structure of parenchyma of lung X-Ray Computed Tomography |
| Content Type | Text |
| Resource Type | Article |
