Interstitial Lung Disease
Interstitial lung disease are lung diseases that affect interstitium of lungs. These can be due to variety of causes from simple causes like exposure to pigeon dropping, farm fungus actinomycetes exposure or complex and unidentifiable cause as in IPF.
ILD like hypersensitivity pneumonitis ,RB ILD are reversible if treated earlier before lung fibrosis progresses.
ILD may cripple individual with breathlessness and bind him to bed with early progression to end of life
However there is scope to increase quality of life in ILD patients like use of proper antifibrotic drugs, pulmonary rehabiltation, adequate drug dosage & oxygen therapy.
Lung fibrosis often used for mentioning ILD but its use of this term is often confusing for relatives of ILD patients.
Dr Nilesh sonawane as pulmonologist has meticulously suspected the diagnosis of hypersensitivity pneumonitis and treated the patients in early stage. Even in young patients as early as 26 yrs were diagnosed as hypersenisitivity pneumonitis.Thus saving lungs of young patients.
ILD is often diagnosed on HRCT thorax
ILD is confirmed with biopsy via bronchoscopy ,surgical or thoracoscopy.
Why interstitium is so important?
Thin interstitium is required for proper oxygen exchange.Thickened interstium is often results in low spo2 on pulse oxymetry.
What are different ILD types?
ILD can be acute and chronic. Depending on type of ILD prognosis of patient depends. We have helped patients with ILD to preserve lung function as much as possible and live a productive life without being feeling of burden in family.