The University of Kansas ILD and Rare Lung Disease clinic sees hundreds of new patients per year. The investigators would like to leverage this resource to develop an Interstitial Lung Disease Research Unit (ILDRU) repository and database to help develop new methods for early diagnosis, uncover underlying genetic and environmental risk factors, as well as potential treatment targets in the broad range of interstitial lung diseases and rare lung diseases (RLD).
Establish a interstitial lung disease (ILD) registry and biorepository to lead towards a further understanding of the disease.