The multidisciplinary meeting (MDM) has been endorsed in current international consensus guidelines as the gold standard method for diagnosis of interstitial lung disease (ILD ... for treatment of ...

Interstitial lung disease (ILD) is one of the most serious lung complications ... the role of some differentially expressed proteins in the development of pulmonary fibrosis and their potential ...

While quantitative HRCT analyses of extent of lung fibrosis (QLFib) or total interstitial lung disease (QILD) are more sensitive ... SLS I and II did not include patients with clinically significant ...

Background Lung function testing remains a cornerstone in the assessment and management of interstitial lung disease ... were white individuals. Idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis (IPF), connective tissue ...

Background Fibrotic interstitial lung diseases (fILDs ... To ensure the presence of clinically meaningful fibrosis, patients will be required to have CT evidence of pulmonary fibrosis (ie, traction ...

but could also lead to treatments that halt or even reverse lung scarring in the disease." Paving the way for new treatment options for pulmonary fibrosis Global early-phase clinical trials for ...

A discovery at Duke-NUS Medical School offers new hope in the battle against pulmonary fibrosis, a debilitating lung condition that progressively makes it harder for patients to breathe.

Pulmonary fibrosis can develop following a lung injury, including COVID-19, but most cases arise without any clear cause. Once diagnosed, the disease rapidly damages the lung, and patients usually ...

“PF Basics: Info for Newly Diagnosed Patients” was created by the Pulmonary Fibrosis Foundation. The resource contains six modules on various topics pertaining to the disease. Receiving a ...

Background: Data examining the role of pulmonary rehabilitation (PR) in interstitial lung disease (ILD) are limited. We tested the hypothesis that PR can improve functional status and dyspnea in a ...