How I Treat & Evaluate ILD

Interstitial Lung Disease (ILD) is difficult to diagnose and treat. At first, the disease could look like a variety of other disorders, such as fibrosis or autoimmunity. Once a diagnosis is made, a decision on how aggressively to treat it can mean the difference between irreversible lung damage or overly impacting your patient's quality of life. We caught up with Dr. Robert Hallowell, a Pulmonary and Critical Care physician at the Massachusetts General Hospital and Director of the Interstitial Lung Disease Program at the Pulmonary Ambulatory Clinic. Dr. Hallowell tells us how he evaluates ILD