cause pulmonary fibrosis

Pulmonary fibrosis is a chronic condition in which tissue deep within the lungs are damaged, thickened, hard due to loss of elasticity (elasticity), and scarring. The scar is called pulmonary fibrosis. Because pulmonary fibrosis and scarring stiffer, will limit the ability of the patient to breathe.

 

There are many causes of pulmonary fibrosis

- Lung disease secondary to lung injury: tuberculosis, pneumonia, pulmonary embolism, ..

- Disease Asbestosis: by inhaling substances such as silica, asbestos (also called a-asbestos), coal dust in mines, beryl

- Patients allergic inflammation of the alveoli exotic: lung disease in mushroom growers, farmers inhaling mold straw, poultry farmers perching birds ....

- Exposure to chemicals, toxic fumes, aerosols: NO, ..

- Granulation tissue pathology: sarcoidosis

- Do some drugs: aminodarone, bleomycine, busulfan, nitrofurantoin, methotrexate, penicilamine, and irritants such as cocaine, heroin

- Exposure to radiation

- Diseases of connective tissue: scleroderma, lupus erythematosus system, rheumatoid arthritis,

- The system diseases: hepatitis C, immune deficiency syndrome, acquired,

- Do genetics: idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis have family properties, tumor sclerosis bulbs, ...