Pulmonary Alveolar Proteinosis
"Pulmonary Alveolar Proteinosis" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus,
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A PULMONARY ALVEOLI-filling disease, characterized by dense phospholipoproteinaceous deposits in the alveoli, cough, and DYSPNEA. This disease is often related to, congenital or acquired, impaired processing of PULMONARY SURFACTANTS by alveolar macrophages, a process dependent on GRANULOCYTE-MACROPHAGE COLONY-STIMULATING FACTOR.
| Descriptor ID |
D011649
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| MeSH Number(s) |
C08.381.719
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| Concept/Terms |
Pulmonary Alveolar Proteinosis- Pulmonary Alveolar Proteinosis
- Alveolar Proteinosis, Pulmonary
- Proteinosis, Pulmonary Alveolar
- Pulmonary Alveolar Proteinoses
- Alveolar Proteinoses, Pulmonary
- Proteinoses, Pulmonary Alveolar
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Below are the most recent publications written about "Pulmonary Alveolar Proteinosis" by people in Profiles.
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Distinct interferon signatures and cytokine patterns define additional systemic autoinflammatory diseases. J Clin Invest. 2020 04 01; 130(4):1669-1682.