Interstitial pneumopathy

Interstitial pneumopathies indicate a very mixed group of affections of pulmonary fabric being able to evolve to a respiratory Insuffisance or a pulmonary Fibrose, by attack of the alveolar structure .

They can be of acute installation or contrary to insidious, slow and progressive installation. The principal complication is the pulmonary fibrosis which is final. According to its importance it will follow a more or less severe respiratory insufficiency from there.

The causes are numerous:

infections
néoplasies
Pneumoconiose S, which are pneumopathies of inhalation like the Asbestose, the Silicose, the disease of the lung of farmer, of the bird-catchers, the inhalation of smoke, of gas, by false route (paraffin for example)
Sarcoïdose
systemic diseases: érythémateux Lupus disseminated, systemic Scleroderma, Syndrome of Churg-Strauss, etc
ionizing radiations
drugs; most known are: the Amiodarone, the Méthotrexate and other cytotoxic, some Antiandrogène S, the Nitrofurantoïne
generally interstitial pneumopathies are of unknown cause

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