What is your approach to the work up and management of interstitial lung abnormalities?
Answer from: at Academic Institution
ILA are incidental radiological findings (non-dependent abnormalities affecting more than 5% of any lung zone) in asymptomatic patients.
We first evaluate these patients for any potential causes of ILA (i.e. connective tissue diseases, aspiration, drug-related pulmonary toxicity, etc). If an underl...