Acute Interstitial Pneumonia and a Role of Diffuse Alveolar Lesion in Different Forms of Idiopathic Fibrosing Alveolitis

Abstract

The lungs from persons whose death cause had been idiopathic fibrosing alveolitis (IFA) were histologically studied. Different histological types of IFA were identified. Individual clinical, X-ray, and histological approaches are required to diagnose IFA, by obligatorily performing open lung biopsy, bacteriological and virological studies.

Keywords

• idiopathic fibrosing alveolitis