Idiopathic interstitial pneumonia causes

Editor-In-Chief: C. Michael Gibson, M.S., M.D. [1]; Associate Editor(s)-in-Chief: Ahmed Zaghw, M.D. [2]; Chetan Lokhande, M.B.B.S [3]

Idiopathic interstitial pneumonias are broad subsets of pulmonary diseases due to unidentifiable causes. Therefore, the diagnosis of idiopathic pulmonary pneumonia should lead to a careful clinical workup for the known etiological factors and possible adverse drug reaction before Idiopathic interstitial pneumonia is diagnosed.

The most common collagen vascular disease in the lung that should be excluded first are

• Rheumatoid arthritis
• Systemic lupus erythematosus
• Sjögren’s syndrome
• Polymyositis
• Dermatomyositis
• Progressive systemic sclerosis
• Mixed connective tissue disease.

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