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Table 3 Recorded ILD diagnoses in completed data sets (n = 705) up to 1st August 2019

From: Australasian interstitial lung disease registry (AILDR): objectives, design and rationale of a bi-national prospective database

ILD classification

ILD diagnosis

Total number of patients to 1st August 19

Idiopathic Interstitial

Idiopathic Pulmonary Fibrosis (IPF)

240 (34%)

Pneumonias (IIP)

Non-specific interstitial pneumonia (iNSIP)

29 (4.1%)

Desquamative Interstitial Pneumonia (DIP)

2 (0.3%)

Combined Pulmonary Fibrosis and Emphysema (CPFE)

30 (4.3%)

Cryptogenic Organising Pneumonia (COP)

14 (2%)

Lymphocytic Interstitial Pneumonia (LIP)

2 (0.3%)

Respiratory Bronchiolitis Associated ILD (RB-ILD)

9 (1.3%)

Acute interstitial pneumonia (AIP)

1 (0.1%)

Unclassifiablea

51 (7.2%)

ILD of known association

Connective Tissue Disease associated ILD (CTD-ILD)

125 (17.7%)

Drug induced ILD

7 (1.0%)

Occupational exposures

11 (1.6%)

Granulomatous ILD

Hypersensitivity Pneumonitis (HP)

66 (9.4%)

Sarcoidosis

44 (6.2%)

Vasculitis associated ILD

12 (1.7%)

Miscellaneous ILD

Lymphangioleiomyomatosis (LAM)

2 (0.3%)

Langerhan’s cell histiocytosis (LCH)

1 (0.1%)

Other

Early ILD – Interstitial Lung Abnormality

5 (0.7%)

Interstitial Pneumonia with Autoimmune features (IPAF)

3 (0.4%)

Pulmonary Alveolar Proteinosis

1 (0.1%)

Not ILDb

18 (2.6%)

Not specified

32 (4.8%)

  1. aDefined as < 50% diagnostic certainty of any diagnosis (Ryerson Classification)
  2. bIncludes patients initially managed as ILD with subsequent change in diagnosis