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Interstitial Lung Disease

Checked: 12-11-2024 by Vicky Ryan Next Review: 11-11-2026

Overview

The ILD Services at both NBT and UHBW  take care of patients across BNSSG (plus additional referrals from other centres), with a variety of interstitial lung diseases including:

  • Idiopathic Pulmonary Fibrosis (IPF)
  • Hypersensitivity Pneumonitis (HP)
  • Sarcoidosis
  • Pulmonary fibrosis related to auto-immune conditions such as Rheumatoid arthritis, SLE, systemic sclerosis, Sjogren's syndrome
  • Pulmonary fibrosis due to other causes.

The ILD team have  advised that new patients should have a HRCT (high resolution CT) prior to referral.

On UHBW ICE the box is labelled: CT Chest High Resolution (HRCT)

On NBT ICE the box is labelled: CT Chest High Resolution

Referral

Referrals should be sent via eReferral and are triaged in secondary care via Triage Services.

NBT:

Choose Respiratory Medicine Triage Service - North Bristol Lung Centre - Southmead/Cossham/Thornbury - RVJ

Patients will be triaged into the correct sub-speciality services by the respiratory consultants.

UHBW:

Choose Respiratory Medicine Triage Service - Bristol Royal Infirmary - UHBW – RA7

Patients will be triaged into the correct sub-speciality services by the respiratory consultants.



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