TY - CHAP AU - Akira Takeda AU - Yoshiki Ishii ED - Zissis C. Chroneos Y1 - 2017-12-20 PY - 2017 T1 - Interstitial Pneumonia Associated with Connective Tissue Disease: An Overview and an Insight N2 - Pneumonia is an inflammatory disease of the air sacs and surrounding interstitium caused by infectious agents or by endogenous inflammatory tissue disorder termed interstitial pneumonia. The present book covers contemporary topics of community, hospital, and health care-related bacterial and viral pneumonia in the setting of drug resistance, environmental exposures, climate change, hormonal influences, and gender. The topic of interstitial pneumonia is brought under the lens of an immune-related connective tissue disease. BT - Contemporary Topics of Pneumonia SP - Ch. 7 UR - https://doi.org/10.5772/intechopen.70864 DO - 10.5772/intechopen.70864 SN - 978-953-51-3708-5 PB - IntechOpen CY - Rijeka Y2 - 2024-04-23 ER -