Interstitial Lung Disease

Part 1 Clinical approach: approach to the understanding, diagnosis, management of interstitial lung disease; anatomic distribution and histopathologic patterns in interstitial lung disease; physiology of interstitial lung disease; imaging of diffuse parenchymal lung diseases; pediatric interstitial lung disease; genetic predisposition of interstitial lung disease. Part 2 Basic mechanisms: inflammation in the pathogenesis of interstitial lung disease; role of pulmonary epithelium and surfactant in the pathogenesis of interstitial lung disease; cytokine biology and the pathogenesis of interstitial lung disease; extracellular matrix in the pathogenesis of lung injury and repair; immunologic events in the development of interstitial lung disease - the paradigm of sarcoidosis; pulmonary vascular involvement in interstitial lung disease; potential therapies for interstitial lung disease; sarcoidosis; silicosis and coal worker's pneumoconiosis; asbestosis and asbestos-induced pleural fibrosis; interstitial lung disorders due to beryllium and cobalt; hypersensitivity pneumonitis; drug-induced lung disease; connective tissue disease; pulmonary vasculitis; diffuse alveolar hemorrhage; eosinophilic pneumonias; idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis; bronchiolitis; lymphoplasmocytic infiltrations of the lung; miscellaneous interstitial lung diseases.