الفهرس 
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Abstract
This study was conducted prospectively on forty-four consecutive patients with ILDs with or without steroid treatment in Abbassia Chest Hospital during the period from August 2015 to February 2016.
Patients were diagnosed ILDs and included in the study according to diagnostic algorithm of interstitial lung disease.
The diagnosis of these cases was based on clinical features, serological tests (Anti nuclear Ab, Anti-ds DNA, ESR, and RF), documented high-resolution CT scan findings (HRCT) and pulmonary function test (PFT) results consistent with ILDs.
Thirty five cases had idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis (based on exclusion of other known causes of ILDs and usual interstitial pneumonia pattern on HRCT in the form of basilar, sub pleural reticular opacities, and honeycombing with or without traction bronchiectasis). Five cases had hypersensitivity pneumonitis (based on the history of exposure to organic agents and HRCT findings of ground-glass opacity, centrilobular nodules, mosaic areas, and traction bronchiectasis in chronic cases). Four cases had collagen vascular diseases related ILD.