Rare and Interstitial Lung Diseases

Dr Claudio Sorino is Professor of Medicine at the Insubria University, Italy. He earned his MD and PhD in Experimental and Clinical Pulmonology from the University of Palermo, Italy. He did his fellowship in Pulmonary Pathophysiology at the Arizona Respiratory Center and served as Adjunct Professor at the Mel and Enid Zuckerman College of Public Health, Tucson, University of Arizona, USA. He is the author of numerous scientific publications in international journals and book chapters in the field of respiratory medicine. He recently edited Pleural Diseases: Clinical Cases and Real-World Discussions (Elsevier, April 2021) with the collaboration of leading international experts in pleural pulmonology diseases. Dr. Sergio Agati earned his MD in Respiratory Diseases from the University of Messina, Italy. He is Medical Director of the Department of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine at Sant'Anna Hospital in Como, Italy. His areas of clinical expertise and research interests include bronchoscopy and interstitial lung diseases.

• PART I Fibrosing Interstitial Lung Diseases1. Fibrotic Hypersensitivity Pneumonitis After Long-Term Exposure to Household Mold2. Idiopathic Pulmonary Fibrosis With a Typical Usual Interstitial Pneumonia Pattern on Chest High-Resolution Computed Tomography3. Idiopathic Pulmonary Fibrosis in a Smoker With Indeterminate Usual Interstitial Pneumonia Pattern on High-Resolution Computed Tomography4. Interstitial Lung Abnormalities Evolving to Histologically Proven Nonspecific Interstitial PneumoniaPART II Smoking-Associated Interstitial Lung Diseases5. Respiratory Bronchiolitis-Interstitial Lung Disease6. Desquamative Interstitial Pneumonia Complicated by Glucocorticoid-Induced Osteonecrosis of the Femoral Head in a Former Smoker7. Pulmonary Langerhans Cell Histiocytosis in a Young Man Complaining of a Dry Cough and Exertional Dyspnea8. Combined Pulmonary Fibrosis and Emphysema in a Smoker With Apparently Normal Lung VolumesPART III Granulomatous Lung Diseases9. Swollen Cervical Lymph Nodes and Centrilobular Pulmonary Nodules Due to Sarcoidosis10. Relapsing Pulmonary Infiltrates, Severe Asthma, and Eosinophilia With Systemic Manifestations11. Diffuse Parenchymal Lung Disease With Granulomas in the Colon and Cervical Lymph Nodes Due to TuberculosisPART IV Connective Tissue Disease-Associated Lung Diseases12. Pulmonary Fibrosis and Solitary Pulmonary Nodule in Hidden Rheumatoid Arthritis13. Interstitial Lung Disease With High-Resolution Computed Tomography Pattern of Usual Interstitial Pneumonia in a Patient With Unknown Systemic Sclerosis14. Interstitial Lung Disease Associated With the Antisynthetase SyndromePART V Rare and Ultra-Rare Interstitial Lung Diseases15. Pulmonary Alveolar Microlithiasis: An Ultra-Rare Disease16. Pulmonary Alveolar Proteinosis in a Woman With Respiratory Failure and Crazy-Paving Pattern on Chest Computed Tomography17. Idiopathic Pleuroparenchymal Fibroelastosis in a Never-Smoker Woman With a History of Hypersensitivity Pneumonitis18. IgG4-Related Disease as an Unexpected Cause of HemoptysisPART VI Miscellanea19. Amyloid-Associated Cystic Lung Disease in a Woman With Sjögren Syndrome20. Sporadic Lymphangioleiomyomatosis in a Woman Previously Diagnosed With Asthma21. Acute Respiratory Failure in a Patient With Diffuse Ground-Glass Opacities During the COVID-19 Pandemic