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.
- Clinical Presentation
- SPECIFIC CLINICAL DISORDERS
- CARDIAC TRAUMA
- CONSTRICTIVE PERICARDITIS
- Radionuclide Imaging
- VENTILATION
- Visualization of the Biliary Tree
- DIAGNOSIS AND EVALUATION
- RESPIRATORY SENSORS
- Disorders of Pregnancy
- THE FAMILIAL POLYPOSIS SYNDROMES
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- Treatment
- CARDIOMYOPATHY
- PHYSICAL EXAMINATION
- Pulmonary Infiltrates with Eosinophilia PIE
- HEART DISEASE AND PREGNANCY
- Liver Failure
- PERICARDIAL DISEASES - ACUTE PERICARDITIS
- Aspiration Pneumonia and Lung Abscess
- ANGINA PECTORIS
- Endocrine Systems
- SYNCOPE
- Potassium Homeostasis
- Aminoaciduria
- Familial Polyposis of the Colon
- ADAPTATION TO NEPHRON LOSS
- HEMODIALYSIS AND HEMOPERFUSION IN THE TREATMENT OF DRUG OVERDOSES
- Procainamide
- GRANULOMATOUS LIVER DISEASE
- CAUSES OF PULMONARY HYPERTENSION
- THROMBOANGIITIS OBLITERANS
- Hypertrophic Cardiomyopathy
- NORMAL INTESTINAL PHYSIOLOGY
- Community Acquired Pneumonia