Hello everyone 🙂
So, while I was having my oral exams this year, I came across a question that many people were asked: “ILD”, so I looked it up to find that it includes a very wide range of diseases that I studied individually, but never had them collected, they’re quite interesting actually, especially the pneumoconiosis causes (that rhymes :D), let’s go:
ILD, or Interstitial Lung Diseases, is a term that refers to a group of diseases that affect the “interstitium” of lungs; alveoli, capillaries, the separating basement membrane and the perivascular/lymphatic tissues. Almost everything but the bronchial tree or the (Obstructive Lung Diseases).
They give a diffuse shadowing pattern, or a “miliary pattern” on chest x-ray.
The full classification is after the break.
Medicopedia 