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. 2021 Mar 24;22:92. doi: 10.1186/s12931-021-01676-1

Table 1.

List of some of the rare lung disorders

Rare lung disease
α1-antitrypsin deficiency
Cystic fibrosis (CF)
Non-CF bronchiectasis
Primary ciliary dyskinesia (PCD)
Interstitial lung diseases (ILD)
 Idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis (IPF)
 Sarcoidosis
 Connective tissue diseases
 Lymphangioleiomyomatosis (LAM)
 Birt–Hogg–Dubé syndrome
 Eosinophilic pneumonia
 Pulmonary alveolar proteinosis
 Adult pulmonary Langerhans cell histiocytosis
 Granulomatous lymphocytic interstitial lung disease (GLILD)
 Other interstitial lung diseases
Pulmonary hypertension
 Pulmonary arterial hypertension
 Chronic thromboembolic pulmonary hypertension
Chronic lung allograft dysfunction
 Bronchiolitis obliterans syndrome (BOS)
 Restrictive allograft syndrome (RAS)
Mesothelioma
Other rare lung diseases