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pulmonary alveolitis
Inflammation of the pulmonary alveoli. Exudation with impaired gas exchange may occur as reflecte by hypoxia on arterial blood gas (ABG).
Etiology:
1) interstitial lung disease
2) pharmaceutical agents
3) immunological injury
- pneumoconiosis
Complications:
- pulmonary fibrosis
Related
cholestasis
General
lung disease
References
Stedman's Medical Dictionary 27th ed, Williams &
Wilkins, Baltimore, 1999