Interstitial Lung Disease (ILD): Types

Interstitial lung disease (ILD) is a broad category of lung diseases that includes more than 130 disorders characterized by scarring (i.e. "fibrosis") and/or inflammation of the lungs. Some of the disorders included under the heading of ILD are:

• Idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis
• Connective tissue or autoimmune disease-related pulmonary fibrosis
• Hypersensitivity pneumonitis
• Sarcoidosis 
• Eosinophilic granuloma (a.k.a. Langerhan's cell histiocytosis)
• Chronic eosinophilic pneumonia (see hypereosinophilic syndromes)
• Pulmonary vasculitis
• Pulmonary hemorrhage syndromes
• Bronchiolitis obliterans
• Lymphangioleiomyomatosis  
• Familial pulmonary fibrosis or familial interstitial pneumonia