Alveolar lung diseases, are a group of diseases that mainly affect the alveoli of the lungs. Alveoli are the functional units of the lungs. Alveolar lung...
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Interstitial lung disease (ILD), or diffuse parenchymal lung disease (DPLD), is a group of respiratory diseases affecting the interstitium (the tissue)...
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Pulmonary alveolar proteinosis (PAP) is a rare lung disorder characterized by an abnormal accumulation of surfactant-derived lipoprotein compounds within...
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Pulmonary alveolus (redirect from Alveolar duct)
cavities in the lungs where pulmonary gas exchange takes place. Oxygen is exchanged for carbon dioxide at the blood–air barrier between the alveolar air and the...
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Alveolar capillary dysplasia (ACD) is a rare, congenital diffuse lung disease characterized by abnormal blood vessels in the lungs that cause highly elevated...
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Restrictive lung diseases are a category of extrapulmonary, pleural, or parenchymal respiratory diseases that restrict lung expansion, resulting in a...
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Diffuse alveolar damage (DAD) is a histologic term used to describe specific changes that occur to the structure of the lungs during injury or disease. Most...
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Black lung disease (BLD), also known as coal workers' pneumoconiosis, or simply black lung, is an occupational type of pneumoconiosis caused by long-term...
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Pneumoconiosis (redirect from Welder's lung)
Pneumoconiosis is the general term for a class of interstitial lung disease where inhalation of dust (for example, ash dust, lead particles, pollen grains...
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Obstructive lung disease is a category of respiratory disease characterized by airway obstruction. Many obstructive diseases of the lung result from narrowing...
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Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) is a type of progressive lung disease characterized by chronic respiratory symptoms and airflow limitation...
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Pulmonary fibrosis (redirect from Fibrotic lung disease)
and lung cancer. Causes include environmental pollution, certain medications, connective tissue diseases, infections, and interstitial lung diseases. But...
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the alveolar ducts, alveolar sacs, and alveoli. An acinus measures up to 10 mm in diameter. A primary pulmonary lobule is the part of the lung distal...
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Vaping-associated pulmonary injury (redirect from Vaping-associated lung disease)
vaping-associated lung injury (VALI) or e-cigarette, or vaping, product use associated lung injury (E/VALI), is an umbrella term, used to describe lung diseases associated...
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Pulmonary hemorrhage (redirect from Diffuse alveolar hemorrhage)
proteins, high alveolar surface tension, lung damage, hypervolemia). Diffuse alveolar hemorrhage is bleeding from many alveoli throughout the lungs. Common causes...
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Emphysema (redirect from Ritalin lung)
pulmonary disease. A sign of emphysema in smokers is a higher number of alveolar macrophages sampled from the bronchoalveolar lavage (BAL) in the lungs. The...
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Chest radiograph (redirect from Lung x-ray)
Extrathoracic tissues Fields (lung parenchyma), being evidence of alveolar flooding Failure, e.g. alveolar air space disease with prominent vascularity with...
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classified as an interstitial lung disease (diffuse parenchymal lung disease). The major signs of indium lung are pulmonary alveolar proteinosis and pulmonary...
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Farmer's lung (not to be confused with silo-filler's disease) is a hypersensitivity pneumonitis induced by the inhalation of biologic dusts coming from...
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Occupational lung diseases comprise a broad group of diseases, including occupational asthma, industrial bronchitis, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD)...
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exudate within the intra-alveolar space resulting in consolidation that affects a large and continuous area of the lobe of a lung. It is one of three anatomic...
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Silicosis (redirect from Desert lung syndrome)
Silicosis is a form of occupational lung disease caused by inhalation of crystalline silica dust. It is marked by inflammation and scarring in the form...
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Pulmonary edema (redirect from Lung edema)
the lung), and possibly pleural effusions. In contrast, patchy alveolar infiltrates are more typically associated with noncardiogenic edema. Lung ultrasounds...
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Idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis (category Respiratory diseases principally affecting the interstitium)
IPF occurs to the lung alveolar epithelial cells (pneumocytes), the type I and type II cells, which line the majority of the alveolar surface. When type...
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Asbestosis (redirect from Asbestos lung disease)
Asbestosis is the scarring of lung tissue (beginning around terminal bronchioles and alveolar ducts and extending into the alveolar walls) resulting from the...
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Respiratory diseases, or lung diseases, are pathological conditions affecting the organs and tissues that make gas exchange difficult in air-breathing...
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tissue in the lungs. It is a form of idiopathic interstitial pneumonia. It is often a complication of an existing chronic inflammatory disease such as rheumatoid...
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Echinococcosis (redirect from Hydatid disease)
a parasitic disease caused by tapeworms of the Echinococcus type. The two main types of the disease are cystic echinococcosis and alveolar echinococcosis...
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Acute respiratory distress syndrome (redirect from Shock lung)
diffuse alveolar damage (DAD). Of these, the pathology most commonly associated with ARDS is DAD, which is characterized by a diffuse inflammation of lung tissue...
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Pulmonary surfactant (redirect from Alveolar surfactant)
surface-active complex of phospholipids and proteins formed by type II alveolar cells. The proteins and lipids that make up the surfactant have both hydrophilic...
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