Diffuse Parenchymal Lung Diseases (DPLD)

Question 1

Diffuse parenchymal lung disease definition:

Answer 1

A group of non-infectious, non-neoplastic lung diseases each characterized by varying degrees of inflammation and / or fibrosis of the parenchyma of both lungs

Question 2

ILD

Answer 2

Interstitial lung disease

- old term for DPLD

Question 3

IIPs

Answer 3

Idiopathic Interstitial Pneumonias

- a group of 7 DPLDs of unknown cause

Question 4

IPF

Answer 4

Idiopathic Pulmonary Fibrosis

- the most common and most devastating IIP

Question 5

Pulmonary fibrosis definition

Answer 5

term denoting bilateral lung parenchymal fibrosis