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- Title
Twenty‐five years of Respirology: Advances in idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis.
- Authors
Varone, Francesco; Inoue, Yoshikazu; Richeldi, Luca
- Abstract
Being a dreadful and devastating disease with poor prognosis, idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis (IPF) is still a major challenge for clinicians. IPF was defined as a specific form of chronic fibrosing interstitial pneumonia limited to the lung and associated with the histological pattern of usual interstitial pneumonia (UIP) on surgical lung biopsy (SLB) samples. According to this document, an SLB should be only necessary in patients with a clinical context other than IPF, or in patients with an HRCT pattern indeterminate for UIP (i.e. evidence of a fibrosing process but with features that are more in favour of either a non-UIP pattern or UIP in a setting other than IPF) or suggesting an alternative diagnosis. An official ATS/ERS/JRS/ALAT statement: idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis: evidence-based guidelines for diagnosis and management.
- Subjects
INTERSTITIAL lung diseases; DRUG side effects; PULMONARY fibrosis; IDIOPATHIC pulmonary fibrosis; IDIOPATHIC interstitial pneumonias
- Publication
Respirology, 2020, Vol 25, Issue 1, p20
- ISSN
1323-7799
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1111/resp.13733