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Acute idiopathic interstitial pneumonitis characterized by diffuse PULMONARY ALVEOLI damage with uniform edematous connective tissue proliferation. It is often associated with extensive fibroblastic distortion of the lung parenchyma and leads to ADULT RESPIRATORY DISTRESS SYNDROME in later stages.
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- Acute Interstitial Pneumonia
- Acute Interstitial Pneumonitis
- Hamman-Rich Disease
- Acute Interstitial Pneumonias
- Acute Interstitial Pneumonitides
- Hamman Rich Disease
- Hamman Rich Syndrome
- Interstitial Pneumonia, Acute
- Interstitial Pneumonitis, Acute
- Pneumonia, Acute Interstitial
- Pneumonitis, Acute Interstitial
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Indexed with the subheadings blood, cerebrospinal fluid, chemically induced, classification, complications, congenital, diagnosis, diagnostic imaging, diet therapy, drug therapy, economics, embryology, enzymology, epidemiology, ethnology, etiology, genetics, history, immunology, metabolism, microbiology, mortality, nursing, parasitology, pathology, physiopathology, prevention & control, psychology, radiotherapy, rehabilitation, surgery, therapy, urine, veterinary, virology.
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2020; for HAMMAN-RICH SYNDROME use PULMONARY FIBROSIS 1984-2019; for HAMMAN-RICH SYNDROME use IDIOPATHIC PULMONARY FIBROSIS 2010-2019
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- National Library of Medicine. Hamman-Rich Syndrome. Medical Subject Headings (MeSH). 2026. Unique ID D000080203. http://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/2026/D000080203
- Hamman-Rich Syndrome. In: Wikipedia. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acute_interstitial_pneumonitis
- Hamman-Rich Syndrome. In: Wikidata. https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q424258