Rare pediatric lung diseases comprise a wide spectrum of conditions that can affect all parts of the lungs from the large airways to small proteins within the cells. Below is a list of just some of the conditions the team at the Washington University Rare Lung Disease Center has experience diagnosing and treating:
- Primary ciliary dyskinesia (PCD)
- Pulmonary alveolar proteinosis (PAP)
- Neuroendocrine cell hyperplasia of infancy (NEHI)
- Pulmonary interstitial glycogenosis (PIG)
- Pleuropulmonary blastoma
- Dyskeratosis congenita
- Eosinophilic pneumonia
- Bronchiolitis obliterans
- Recurrent pneumonia secondary to immunodeficiency
- Alveolar hemorrhage syndromes
- And many others…