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Palliative care for people with non-malignant lung disease: summary of current evidence and future direction [PDF]

open access: yes, 2013
Background: The physical and psychosocial needs of patients with chronic non-malignant lung disease are comparable to those with lung cancer. This article will focus on chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, interstitial lung disease and cystic fibrosis ...
Boland, Jason   +5 more
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Comorbidities in interstitial lung diseases

open access: yesEuropean Respiratory Review, 2017
Fibrosing lung disorders include a large number of diseases with diverse behaviour. Patients can die because of the progression of their illness, remain stable or even improve after appropriate treatment has been instituted.
George A. Margaritopoulos   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

Long-Term Safety and Efficacy of Tocilizumab in Early Systemic Sclerosis-Interstitial Lung Disease: Open Label Extension of a Phase 3 Randomized Controlled Trial.

open access: yesAmerican Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine, 2021
RATIONALE Tocilizumab, an anti-interleukin-6 receptor antibody, had no statistically significant effect on skin sclerosis but preserved lung function over 48 weeks in patients with early systemic sclerosis-associated interstitial lung disease in a phase ...
D. Khanna   +9 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Connective tissue disease related interstitial lung diseases and idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis: provisional core sets of domains and instruments for use in clinical trials [PDF]

open access: yes, 2013
Rationale Clinical trial design in interstitial lung diseases (ILDs) has been hampered by lack of consensus on appropriate outcome measures for reliably assessing treatment response.
Antoniou, K   +40 more
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Pulmonary vascular resistance predicts mortality in patients with pulmonary hypertension associated with interstitial lung disease: results from the COMPERA registry

open access: yesEuropean Respiratory Journal, 2021
Pulmonary hypertension (PH) is a common complication of many chronic lung diseases, especially COPD and interstitial lung disease (ILD) [1]. In these conditions, the development of PH is associated with an aggravation of symptoms and an increase in ...
K. Olsson   +7 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Surgical lung biopsy for the diagnosis of interstitial lung disease in England: 1997-2008 [PDF]

open access: yes, 2016
Introduction: International guidelines and new targeted therapies for idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis have increased the need for accurate diagnosis of interstitial lung disease, which may lead to more surgical lung biopsies.
Fogarty, Andrew W.   +4 more
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Idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis cluster analysis highlights diagnostic delay and cardiovascular comorbidity association with outcome

open access: yesERJ Open Research, 2021
Introduction Idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis (IPF) prognosis is heterogeneous despite antifibrotic treatment. Cluster analysis has proven to be a useful tool in identifying interstitial lung disease phenotypes, which has yet to be performed in IPF. The aim
Jaume Bordas-Martínez   +10 more
doaj   +1 more source

MRI of the lung (3/3)-current applications and future perspectives [PDF]

open access: yes, 2011
BACKGROUND: MRI of the lung is recommended in a number of clinical indications. Having a non-radiation alternative is particularly attractive in children and young subjects, or pregnant women.
A Hebestreit   +96 more
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Personalised medicine in interstitial lung diseases

open access: yesEuropean Respiratory Review, 2018
Interstitial lung diseases in general, and idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis in particular, are complex disorders with multiple pathogenetic pathways, various disease behaviour profiles and different responses to treatment, all facets that make personalised ...
Maria A. Kokosi   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

Airway involvement in interstitial lung disease [PDF]

open access: yes, 2006
PURPOSE OF REVIEW: After briefly discussing several ways to approach airway involvement in interstitial lung diseases - by diagnostic methodologies used to assess it, considering different topographical involvement, related to its presence in the diffuse
Robalo-Cordeiro, C
core   +1 more source

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