Related Articles When COVID 19 encounters interstitial lung disease challenges and management Zhonghua Jie He He Hu Xi Za Zhi 2020 Mar 21 43 0 E039 Authors Ren YH Wang SY Liu M Guo YM Dai HP Abstract In December 2019 a new type of coronavirus pneumonia COVID 19 emerged in Wuhan Hubei and spread rapidly to China and over 100 countries around the world The lung injury and repair caused by COVID 19 has many similarities with the onset and progression of interstitial lung disease ILD Therefore it is difficult to distinguish between COVID 19 and some types of new onset ILD or other causes leading to acute exacerbation of ILD Clinicians need to comprehensively analyze the epidemic history disease onset characteristics clinical manifestations image characteristics serological andpathogenic microorganism test results to confirm diagnosis Because of this the article will discuss the issues related to the differential diagnosis and management of COVID 19 and ILD and try to provide reasonable suggestions PMID 32198915 PubMed as supplied by publisher