Rare Lung Diseases

Dr. Sujith V. Cherian is Associate Professor of Internal Medicine, in the Division of Critical Care, Pulmonary and Sleep Medicine at the University of Texas Health-McGovern Medical School, Houston.Dr. Anupam Kumar is an Assistant Professor of Medicine at the Division of Pulmonary & Critical Care Medicine at Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas. He is also the Director of the Interstitial Lung Diseases (ILD) Clinic at Baylor College of Medicine.

• Chapter 1: IntroductionChapter 2: Developmental lung anomalies in adultsRare genetic lung diseasesChapter 3: Genetic infiltrative lung diseasesChapter 4: Alpha-1- antitrypsin deficiencyRare airway disordersChapter 5: Benign central airway disordersChapter 6: BronchiolitisChapter 7: Allergic Bronchopulmonary Aspergillosis (ABPA)Rare pulmonary vascular diseasesChapter 8: Pulmonary Arteriovenous Malformations (PAVMs) and Hereditary hemorrhagic telangiectasia (HHT)Chapter 9: Diffuse Alveolar Hemorrhage (DAH) syndromesChapter 10: Pulmonary Veno-occlusive Disease and Pulmonary Capillary Hemangiomatosis Rare diffuse parenchymal lung diseasesChapter 11: Pleuroparenchymal fibroelastosis (PPFE)Chapter 12: Immunoglobulin G4-related lung diseaseChapter 13: Eosinophilic lung diseasesChapter 14: Hard Metal Lung Disease and Other Rare Occupational Lung DiseasesChapter 15: Adult Pulmonary Alveolar ProteinosisRare diffuse cystic lung diseasesChapter 16: LymphangioleiomyomatosisChapter 17: Lymphocytic Interstitial Pneumonia and associated Cystic Lung DiseasesChapter 18: Birt Hogg Dube SyndromeChapter 19: Pulmonary Langerhans Cell Histiocytosis and other histiocytic lung diseasesRare pulmonary neoplasmsChapter 20: Primary pulmonary lymphoproliferative disordersChapter 21: Diffuse Idiopathic Pulmonary Neuroendocrine Cell HyperplasiaChapter 22: Pulmonary AmyloidosisChapter 23: Primary tracheal tumorsRare pleural disordersChapter 24: Unusual causes of pleural effusionsChapter 25: Thoracic endometriosisChapter 26: Tumours of the Pleura