Interstitial Lung Disease In First Year Of Life: A Brief Review

Abstract

Interstitial lung disease is a rare disorder that has various etiologies and clinical presentations. Some interstitial lung diseases are more common in infancy period, which is not similar to interstitial lung disease in childhood or adult. Every infant presenting with early respiratory distress/failure or chronic respiratory symptoms without reasonable cause together with diffuse pulmonary infiltration should be sought out for interstitial lung diseases after excluding other common conditions of diffuse lung disease. This review focuses on interstitial lung disease in infant or in first year of life in the scope of classification system, systematic approach, investigations, clinical presentations, imaging findings, pathological findings, managements and prognosis. Early recognition of clinical and characteristic of imaging findings of ILD in infants can lead to prompt diagnosis and proper management.