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- Title
Idiopathic Pulmonary Fibrosis in Switzerland: Diagnosis and Treatment.
- Authors
Funke-Chambour, Manuela; azzola, andrea; adler, Dan; Barazzone-argiroffo, Constance; Benden, Christian; Boehler, annette; Bridevaux, Pierre-Olivier; Brutsche, Martin; Clarenbach, Christian F.; Hostettler, Katrin; Kleiner-Finger, Rebekka; Nicod, Laurent P.; Soccal, Paola M.; Tamm, Michael; Geiser, Thomas; Lazor, Romain
- Abstract
Idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis (IPF) is a severe progressive and irreversible lung disease. Novel antifibrotic drugs that slow disease progression are now available. However, many issues regarding patient management remain unanswered, such as the choice between available drugs, their use in particular subgroups and clinical situations, time of treatment onset, termination, combination or switch, or nonpharmacologic management. To guide Swiss respiratory physicians in this evolving field still characterized by numerous areas of uncertainty, the Swiss Working Group for interstitial and rare lung diseases of the Swiss Respiratory Society provides a position paper on the diagnosis and treatment of IPF.
- Subjects
SWITZERLAND; PREVENTION of disease progression; PROTEIN kinase inhibitors; DELPHI method; MEDICAL protocols; IDIOPATHIC pulmonary fibrosis; DIAGNOSIS; THERAPEUTICS
- Publication
Respiration, 2017, Vol 93, Issue 5, p363
- ISSN
0025-7931
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1159/000464332