Generality
Interstitial disease is a serious lung disease characterized by an inflammatory process of the lung interstitium often accompanied by its replacement with scar tissue.
The typical symptom that characterizes all types of interstitial disease is dyspnea, or shortness of breath.
Unfortunately, in most cases, interstitial diseases are chronic and irreversible pathological conditions. The treatments, in fact, have limited effects, reducing only the symptoms or slowing down the progression of the disease as much as possible.
Interstitial disease is also known as interstitial lung disease, diffuse infiltrative lung disease, interstitial lung disease or ILD (from the English Interstitial Lung Disease)
