Diffuse parenchymal lung disease

Alternate Names : Diffuse parenchymal lung disease, Alveolitis, Cryptogenic fibrosing alveolitis (CFA), Idiopathic pulmonary pneumonitis (IPP)
Definition ...

Diffuse parenchymal lung disease; Alveolitis; Cryptogenic fibrosing alveolitis (CFA); Idiopathic pulmonary pneumonitis (IPP)
Causes, incidence, and risk factors ...

Diffuse Parenchymal Lung Disease
This term describes a group of over 200 diseases of various causes, which result in scarring around the air sacs (alveoli) of the lung.

Diffuse parenchymal lung disease
Mediastinal fibrosis
Myleofibrosis
Post-Vasectomy Pain Syndrome
Retroperitoneal fibrosis
Progressive massive fibrosis, a complication of coal workers' pneumoconiosis
Proliferative fibrosis, neoplastic fibrosis ...

Indications for heart-lung transplantation are pulmonary vascular disease or diffuse parenchymal lung disease in which removal of all lung tissue is indicated (eg, certain cases of cystic fibrosis).

See also: Lung Disease, Fibrosis, Interstitial lung disease, Pulmonary Fibrosis, Arthritis