ILD is a term used for a group of disorders that commonly affect the tissue and space around the air sacs in the lung.

The ILD unit at Royal Brompton has expertise in the specialist management of a wide range of these interstitial and rare lung diseases, including:

• Idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis (IPF)
• Non-specific interstitial pneumonitis (NSIP)
• Hypersensitivity pneumonitis
• Sarcoidosis
• Connective tissue disease-associated lung disease
• Vasculitis associated lung disease
• Lymphangieolyomyomatosis (LAM)
• Langerhan’s cell histiocytosis
• Alveolar proteinosis
• Drug-induced lung disease
• Cryptogenic organising pneumonia (COP)
• Alveolar microlithiasis 
• Pleuroparenchymal fibroelastosis (PPFE)