Idiopathic Pulmonary Fibrosis
A large number of patients with diffuse interstitial lung disease will not fit into any of the previously mentioned categories. These patients, usually middle aged with no sex predominance, present with dyspnea and x-ray evidence of interstitial disease. Rarely, the disease progresses very rapidly to death from respiratory failure within six months of the onset of symptoms (Ham-man-Rich syndrome). When the disease is more slowly progressive, it is termed idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis or cryptogenic fibrosing alveolitis.
- Genitourinary System
- CLINICAL PRESENTATION
- PULMOIIARY FUNCTION EVALUATION
- ANGINA PECTORIS
- CHARACTERISTICS OF ABDOMINAL PAIN
- Diagnosis
- DEFINITION
- SPECIFIC PATHOGENIC ORGANISMS
- Verapamil
- Treatment and Prognosis
- PLEURAL EFFUSIONS
- PATHOGENESIS OF RESPIRATORY TRACT INFECTION
- Outcomes of Dialysis
- Endocrine and Other Considerations
- ARTERIOSCLEROSIS OBLITERANS
- Pneumonia in the Immunocompromised Host
- POLYPS OF THE GASTROINTESTINAL TRACT
- CLINICAL MANIFESTATIONS
- SPECIFIC MANIFESTATIONS OF RENAL DISEASE
- Gastrointestinal Tract
- PROGNOSIS
- SCREENING TESTS OF HEPATOBILIARY DISEASE
- OBLITERATIVE OR OBSTRUCTIVE PULMONARY HYPERTENSION
- Alterations in Drug Doses in Patients with Renal Failure
- GASTRITIS
- CLINICAL PRESENTATION
- Pulmonary Vasculitis
- Laparoscopy
- PERIPHERAL ANEURYSMS AMD FISTULAE
- Elimination of Waste Products of Metabolism and Drugs
- Hepatic Encephalopathy
- Neurologic Manifestations
- Gardner's Syndrome
- Sickle Cell Anemia (SS)
- Familial Polyposis of the Colon