Pulmonary fibrosis is also a term that’s used to refer to a disease that is found in the interstitium of the lungs. It falls into an even larger group of diseases called ILDs. Why? Because the scarring is found in the interstitium of the lungs; that is, the network of tissue that supports the air sacs of your lungs.
There are hundreds of different interstitial lung diseases or ILDs. Some ILDs cause mostly scarring; other ILDs cause mostly inflammation. Others cause a mix of both. If you have pulmonary fibrosis, it means that you have a type of ILD that causes lung scarring.
Tiny air sacs (known as alveoli) and blood vessels of the lungs are responsible for providing oxygen to all parts of the body. As scarring of the lung tissue and air sacs develops, it becomes harder for oxygen to pass through the lungs and into the bloodstream.
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