| During the acute stage of disease, the histologic appearance consists of a combination of bronchiolitis and alveolitis with granuloma formation. |
| On oxygen 24-hours-a-day, the 54-year-old suffers from cryptogenic fibrosing alveolitis. |
| This second group was further subdivided into conditions that are part of a systemic disease or fibrosing alveolitis. |
| In contrast, fibrosing alveolitis is a disease that starts in the periphery of the lung. |
| Although still in his mid-50s and in the prime of his productive professional life, fibrosing alveolitis had left him severely disabled. |
| The authors concluded that inflammatory alveolitis might have been present in severely exposed subjects. |
