Category:Desquamative interstitial pneumonia

A idiopathic interstitial pneumonia which causes chronic lung inflammation with intra-alveolar macrophage accumulation, moderate fibrotic thickening of alveolar septa and mild interstitial chronic inflammation that occurs mostly in current or former cigarette smokers, sometimes in non-smokers resulting in shortness of breath. OMIM mapping confirmed by DO. [SN]. equivalent URI:=http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/DOID_2796