interstitial lung disease

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interstitial lung disease

Diffuse interstitial pulmonary fibrosis Pulmonology A group of disorders characterized by scarring of deep lung tissue, leading to SOB and loss of functional alveoli, limiting O₂ exchange; ILD is more common in smokers Etiology Inorganic and organic dusts, gases, fumes, vapors, medications, radiation, and certain lung infections, hypersensitivity pneumonitis, coal worker's pneumoconiosis, silicosis, byssinosis, idiopathic

Interstitial lung disease

About 180 diseases fall into this category of breathing disorders. Injury or foreign substances in the lungs (such as asbestos fibers) as well as infections, cancers, or inherited disorders may cause the diseases. They can lead to breathing or heart failure.

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KEYWORDS: Spirometery; Interstitial pulmonary disease; Hepatitis C; Non-specific impairment of lung function.

Non-specific impairment of Lung Function on Spirometery in Patients with Chronic Hepatitis-C

However, patients with malignant pulmonary effusion may have substantial interstitial pulmonary disease with low oxygen saturation, which may not be clinically evident (9).

Talc-induced interstitial pneumonitis with respiratory failure

A newly observed interstitial pulmonary disease. JAMA 193:261-265 (1965).

Cockatiel-induced hypersensitivity pneumonitis. (Grand Rounds in Environmental Medicine)

However, a query of the National Occupational Respiratory Mortality System for 4 separate years (1999, 2003, 2004, and 2007) for "other interstitial pulmonary diseases with fibrosis" * (which would include IPF) listed as the underlying or contributing cause of death revealed 35 decedents categorized as having worked in the "office of dentists" and 19 categorized as having the occupation "dentist," with proportionate mortality ratios of 1.52 (95% confidence interval [CI] = 1.05-2.11) and 1.67 (95% CI = 1.01-2.61), respectively (Respiratory Health Division, CDC, unpublished data, 2017).

Dental Personnel Treated for Idiopathic Pulmonary Fibrosis at a Tertiary Care Center--Virginia, 2000-2015