Restrictive lung disease

Restrictive lung disease
ICD-9	518.89
eMedicine	med/2012

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Overview

Restrictive lung diseases are a category of respiratory disease characterised by a loss of lung compliance, causing incomplete lung expansion and increased lung stiffness.

Complete Differential Diagnosis for Restrictive Lung Disease

• Abestosis
• Anklosing Spondylitis
• Bagassosis
• Berylliosis
• Bird Fanciers Lung
• Dermatomyositis
• Drug treatments
• Farmers Lung
• Fibrothorax
• Hard Metal Fibrosis
• Idiopathic kyphosis
• Interstitial Pneumonia
• Interstitial pneumonitis
• Lymphangioleiomyomatosis
• Massive Pleural Effusion
• Mushroom Worker Lung
• Myopathy
• Myositis
• Obesity
• Phrenic neuropathy
• Pneumoconiosis
• Polymyositis
• Pulmonary Vasculitis
• Rheumatoid Arthritis
• Sarcoidosis
• Scleroderma
• Silicosis
• Systemic Lupus Erythematosus
• Talc