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Published on: June 16, 2020
Management of idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis: prognostic indicators
1Dept of Occupational and Environmental Medicine, Royal Brompton Hospital, London, UK.
Abstract:
There now exists a number of approaches that can be used to predict likely responses to therapy and disease progression in idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis. These tools should be used in management decisions. It must be remembered that destroyed, fixed fibrotic lung will not improve and that the computed tomography pattern and extent of the "fibrotic" pattern should be used to determine if the best response to treatment that can be expected is a prevention of deterioration rather than improvement.
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