Diseases

Pulmonary Alveolar Proteinosis

A PULMONARY ALVEOLI-filling disease, characterized by dense phospholipoproteinaceous deposits in the alveoli, cough, and DYSPNEA. This disease is often related to, congenital or acquired, impaired processing of PULMONARY SURFACTANTS by alveolar macrophages, a process dependent on GRANULOCYTE-MACROPHAGE COLONY-STIMULATING FACTOR.

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A PULMONARY ALVEOLI-filling disease, characterized by dense phospholipoproteinaceous deposits in the alveoli, cough, and DYSPNEA. This disease is often related to, congenital or acquired, impaired processing of PULMONARY SURFACTANTS by alveolar macrophages, a process dependent on GRANULOCYTE-MACROPHAGE COLONY-STIMULATING FACTOR.

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  • Alveolar Proteinoses, Pulmonary
  • Alveolar Proteinosis, Pulmonary
  • Proteinoses, Pulmonary Alveolar
  • Proteinosis, Pulmonary Alveolar
  • Pulmonary Alveolar Proteinoses

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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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  1. National Library of Medicine. Pulmonary Alveolar Proteinosis. Medical Subject Headings (MeSH). 2026. Unique ID D011649. http://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/2026/D011649
  2. Pulmonary Alveolar Proteinosis. In: Wikipedia. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pulmonary_alveolar_proteinosis
  3. Pulmonary Alveolar Proteinosis. In: Wikidata. https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q448698