George A Margaritopoulos, Sergio Harari, Antonella Caminati, Katerina M Antoniou
For many years, cigarette smoking has been considered as the leading cause of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease and lung cancer. Recently, however, it has also been associated with the development of diffuse interstitial lung diseases. In the latest classification of the major idiopathic interstitial pneumonias (IIP), the term smoking-related IIP has been introduced, including two entities, namely desquamative interstitial pneumonia (DIP) and respiratory bronchiolitis-interstitial lung disease (RB-ILD)...
January 2016: Respirology: Official Journal of the Asian Pacific Society of Respirology