Smoking-related interstitial lung diseases
Smoking-related interstitial lung disease (SR-ILD) refers to a subgroup of interstitial lung diseases that fall under smoking-related lung disease. Conditions that can fall into this group include.
- respiratory bronchiolitis (RB)
- respiratory bronchiolitis ILD (RB-ILD)
- desquamative interstitial pneumonitis (DIP)
- pulmonary Langerhans cell histiocytosis (PLCH)
In addition smoking can also be a risk factor in other interstitial lung diseases such as:
- idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis (IPF)
- combined pulmonary fibrosis and emphysema (CPFE)
- acute eosinophilic pneumonia (AEP)
- rheumatoid-arthritis-associated interstitial lung disease (RA-ILD)
as well as some conditions which could have an interstitial component such as:
