Diagnosaurus
Interstitial lung disease
Etiology
Drug-related
- Amiodarone
- Antibacterials (nitrofurantoin, sulfonamides)
- Antineoplastics (bleomycin, cyclophosphamide, methotrexate, nitrosoureas)
- Antirheumatics (gold salts, penicillamine)
- Phenytoin
- Inorganic dust (asbestos, silica, hard metals, beryllium)
- Organic dust or hypersensitivity pneumonitis (thermophilic actinomycetes, avian antigens, Aspergillus spp.)
- Gases, fumes, vapors (chlorine, isocyanates, paraquat, sulfur dioxide)
- Ionizing radiation
- Talc (injection drug users)
- Disseminated fungus (coccidioidomycosis, blastomycosis, histoplasmosis)
- Disseminated mycobacteria
- Pneumocystis jiroveci pneumonia
- Viruses
- Idiopathic fibrosing interstitial pneumonia [idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis (IPF)]:
- Acute interstitial pneumonia (AIP)
- Desquamative interstitial pneumonia (DIP)
- Nonspecific interstitial pneumonitis (NSIP)
- Usual interstitial pneumonia (UIP)
- Respiratory bronchiolitis-associated interstitial lung disease (RB-ILD)
- Bronchiolitis obliterans-organizing pneumonia (BOOP)
- Acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS)
- Amyloidosis
- Ankylosing spondylitis
- Autoimmune disease: dermatomyositis, polymyositis, rheumatoid arthritis, systemic sclerosis (scleroderma), systemic lupus erythematosus
- Chronic eosinophilic pneumonia
- Goodpasture's syndrome
- Idiopathic pulmonary hemosiderosis
- Inflammatory bowel disease
- Eosinophilic granuloma (Langerhans cell histiocytosis, histiocytosis X)
- Lymphangitic carcinomatosis
- Lymphangioleiomyomatosis (LAM)
- Pulmonary edema
- Pulmonary venous hypertension
- Sarcoidosis
- Wegener's granulomatosis
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Last updated: December 1, 2014
Citation
Zeiger, Roni F.. "Interstitial Lung Disease." Diagnosaurus, 4th ed., McGraw-Hill Education, 2014. Emergency Central, emergency.unboundmedicine.com/emergency/view/Diagnosaurus/114753/0/Interstitial_lung_disease.
Zeiger RFR. Interstitial lung disease. Diagnosaurus. McGraw-Hill Education; 2014. https://emergency.unboundmedicine.com/emergency/view/Diagnosaurus/114753/0/Interstitial_lung_disease. Accessed November 3, 2025.
Zeiger, R. F. (2014). Interstitial lung disease. In Diagnosaurus (4th ed.). McGraw-Hill Education. https://emergency.unboundmedicine.com/emergency/view/Diagnosaurus/114753/0/Interstitial_lung_disease
Zeiger RFR. Interstitial Lung Disease [Internet]. In: Diagnosaurus. McGraw-Hill Education; 2014. [cited 2025 November 03]. Available from: https://emergency.unboundmedicine.com/emergency/view/Diagnosaurus/114753/0/Interstitial_lung_disease.
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