This comprehensive issue reviews the approach to diagnosis of ILD, radiology if ILD, pathology of ILD.

Written and edited by global leaders in this challenging field, Rare and Interstitial Lung Diseases: Clinical Cases and Real-World Discussions brings you up to date with the latest advances in complex or rare lung diseases managed on ...

This comprehensive issue reviews the approach to diagnosis of ILD, radiology if ILD, pathology of ILD.

Focusing on clinical practice, this book explores the less common diseases affecting the airways, systematic disorders with lung involvement, interstitial lung diseases and many other orphan conditions of the lungs.

The book represents a complete and comprehensive visual representation of interstitial lung disease.

... RB and RB - ILD. 32 A pproximately 25 % of all adults smoke cigarettes , an activity during which a complex dirty mixture of more than 4,000 diverse chemical are inhaled in a vaporized and particulate mixture referred to as cigarette ...

... lung disease (RB-ILD) and desquamative interstitial pneumonia (DIP) are viewed as a continuum of smoking-induced diseases. Another smoking-related condition, respiratory bronchiolitis (RB), is usually found in asymptomatic smokers and a ...

... RB-ILD. An equal number of patients demonstrate obstructive and restrictive physiology; many only manifest a decrease in diffusing capacity [3, 4]. Investigations High-Resolution Computed Tomography (HRCT). The HRCT appearance in RB-ILD ...

... RB progresses so that there are respiratory signs or symptoms of chronic lung disease—respiratory bronchiolitis–interstitial lung disease (RB-ILD). Patients with RB-ILD develop symptoms such as dyspnea and cough, with abnormal pulmonary ...

... (RB-ILD) is a form of idiopathic interstitial pneumonia characterized by the nodular accumulation of brown macrophages within and around respiratory bronchioles with simultaneous peribronchiolar inflammation and fibrosis [1,2]. RB-ILD ...