AbstractAim: The purpose of the current research was to investigate the function of high-resolution computed tomography in the context of interstitial lung disease.
Materials and Methods: There were sixty patients who participated in the research. Data for the study collected from patients clinically suspected to have interstitial lung disease. All of the patients who came to department of Radiology, Tertiary Care Teaching Institute of India with a diagnosis of ILD and had a chest CXR and HRCT were included in the study. HRCT chest scan was carried out in 64 slice CT machine using 120 kV, 200 mA with scan time per slice as 1-2 sec with slice thickness 1-2 mm. A pulmonologist analysed each and every HRCT chest that was performed.
Results: The age range of the patients was from 22 to 84 years. Of the total number of patients, 34 were female, and 23 of them were smokers. The illness lasted for a median of twelve months, with a range that went from one to twenty-four months. 92% of them presented with multiple complaints, with dyspnoea (69.1%) and cough (78.1%) being the most common complaints. The number of findings reported by an HRCT chest examination for a patient was significantly higher than the findings reported by a CXR. When it came to the distribution of diseases that were diagnosed by HRCT chest, the most common type was diffuse parenchymal lung diseases with a known cause (49.9%).
Conclusion: HRCT is superior to other imaging modalities due to its high spatial resolution. In terms of detecting all fundamental patterns and the distribution of those patterns, HRCT was found to be superior to CXR. When diagnosing ILD, a chest radiograph is a nonspecific initial investigation that is performed.
