Diffuse Cystic Lung Diseases

Nishant Gupta, MD, MS is Associate Professor in the Division of Pulmonary, Critical Care, and Sleep Medicine at the University of Cincinnati. He is the Director of the Interstitial Lung Disease Program at the University of Cincinnati and the International Rare Lung Disease Clinic Network.  Kathryn A. Wikenheiser-Brokamp, MD, PhD is Associate Professor in the Division of Pathology & Laboratory Medicine and the Perinatal Institute Division of Pulmonary Biology at Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center. She is also Associate Professor in the Department of Pathology & Laboratory Medicine at the University of Cincinnati and Pulmonary Pathologist for the Interstitial Lung Disease program at the University of Cincinnati.Francis X. McCormack, MD is Taylor Professor and Director of the Division of Pulmonary, Critical Care, and Sleep Medicine at the University of Cincinnati. He is also volume editor of Molecular Basis of Pulmonary Disease (2010).

• Definition and Classification of Diffuse Cystic Lung Diseases.- Mechanisms of Lung Cyst Formation.- Radiologic Evaluation of Cystic Lung Disease.- Pathological Evaluation of Pulmonary Cysts.- Pathophysiology of Lymphangioleiomyomatosis.- Smoking-induced Diffuse Cystic Lung Diseases.- Birt-Hogg-Dubé Syndrome.- Lymphocytic Interstitial Pneumonitis and Follicular Bronchiolitis.- Amyloidosis and Immunoglobulin Deposition Disease.- Infectious Etiologies of Diffuse Cystic Lung Diseases.- Neoplasms that Present as Multicystic Lung Disease.- Congenital and Developmental Causes of Cystic Lung Disease.- Rare Causes of Cystic Lung Disease.- Mimics, Impersonators and Semblances of Pulmonary Cysts.- Extrapulmonary Manifestations of Diffuse Cystic Lung Diseases.- Clinical Presentation and Management of Pleural Disease in Diffuse Cystic Lung Diseases.- Air Travel in Diffuse Cystic Lung Diseases.- Approach to the Diagnosis and Management of Diffuse Cystic Lung Diseases.