Principales diagnósticos etiológicos de las enfermedades pulmonares intersticiales difusas confirmadas por biopsia pulmonar y su relación clínico-radiológico: en pacientes de la E.S.E. Hospital Universitario Erasmo Meoz en los años 2017 y 2018.

Abstract

The worldwide incidence of diffuse interstitial lung diseases (EPID) has increased in the last 10 years, especially those that cannot be diagnosed only by clinic or by the use of radiography, but need lung biopsy for diagnosis. final etiological; Colombia and its department North of Santander is not the exception even considering that this disease can be considered as little suspected and little studied, it was necessary to see what are the most frequent etiologies in the region, for this reason this is a descriptive work series of cases where a total of 60 pulmonology patients were evaluated retrospectively with the diagnosis J849 according to ICD10, of which 20 patients required pulmonary biopsy for their final etiological diagnosis, aiming to establish the main diagnoses aetiologies of diffuse interstitial lung diseases confirmed by pulmonary biopsy and its clinical-radiological presentation in ESE patients Erasmo Meoz University Hospital in 2017 and 2018 where it was found that for the majority of patients initially diagnosed as EPID by clinic and radiology who were taken to Pulmonary Biopsy the pathology confirms another diagnosis other than EPID disagreeing with the world literature where The main diagnosis is idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis, which for our study is the latest in frequency.