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fibrosing alveolitis

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fibrosing alveolitis
[fī′brōsing]
Etymology: L, fibra + alviolus, small hollow; Gk, itis, inflammation
a severe form of alveolitis characterized by dyspnea and hypoxia. It occurs in advanced rheumatoid arthritis and other autoimmune diseases. X-ray films show thickening of the alveolar septa and diffuse pulmonary infiltrates. See also alveolitis.

fibrosing alveolitis
Pulmonology A progressive chronic inflammatory disease of adults–45 to 65, which later develops into diffuse interstitial fibrosis and honeycomb lung Prevalence 4/10,000; accounts for ±15% of honeycomb lung disease Clinical Dry cough, dyspnea, clubbed fingers; FA progresses to respiratory failure and may produce cor pulmonale PFTs Restrictive changes Complications ↑ lung CA, often peripheral adenoCA


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Of those, four have brochiectasis, two have asthma, one has fibrosing alveolitis and one - Tony -has Chronic Obstructive Pneumatitis.
She won the Seatonville ward in Whitley Bay with a landslide victory in 2000, aged 66, but retired two years later after being diagnosed with the lung disease fibrosing alveolitis.
Fibrosing Alveolitis Subcommittee of the Research Committee of the British Thoracic Society.
 
 
 
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