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Elevated Serum Amyloid A (SAA) levels have been found in several inflammatory diseases, including sarcoidosis. SAA is suggested to be involved in sarcoidosis pathogenesis by involvement in granuloma formation and maintenance.
Els Beijer +5 more
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Background Pulmonary fibrosis (PF) is caused by a heterogeneous group of diseases, with a high inter-individual variability in disease trajectory. Identifying disease progression in patients with PF has impact on clinical management decisions.
Gizal Nakshbandi +9 more
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Interstitial lung disease [PDF]
This article reviews the most important articles published in interstitial lung disease, as reviewed during the Clinical Year in Review session at the 2012 annual European Respiratory Society Congress in Vienna, Austria.Since the recent international guidelines for the management of idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis (IPF), important new evidence is ...
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A descriptive epidemiological study of interstitial lung disease in the United Kingdom general population [PDF]
Interstitial lung disease (ILD) is a heterogeneous group of parenchymal lung disorders having varied histopathologies. Although histologically different, the ILDs have rather similar clinical presentations consisting of increasing dyspnea, a restrictive ...
Amar, Rajeev K.
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Lung cancer in patients with fibrosing interstitial lung diseases: an overview of current knowledge and challenges. [PDF]
Patients with progressive fibrosing interstitial lung diseases (fILD) have increased morbidity and mortality. Lung fibrosis can be associated with lung cancer.
Jacques Cadranel +12 more
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Antineutrophil cytoplasmic antibody-associated interstitial lung disease: a review
Over the past three decades, an increasing number of publications have reported the association between interstitial lung disease (ILD) and anti-neutrophil cytoplasmic antibody (ANCA) or ANCA-associated vasculitis (AAV). With this increased awareness, we
Suha Kadura, Ganesh Raghu
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Lung Cancer in Pulmonary Fibrosis: Tales of Epithelial Cell Plasticity [PDF]
Lung epithelial cells exhibit a high degree of plasticity. Alterations to lung epithelial cell function are critically involved in several chronic lung diseases such as pulmonary fibrosis.
Königshoff, M. +2 more
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Lung Microbiome in Idiopathic Pulmonary Fibrosis and Other Interstitial Lung Diseases [PDF]
Interstitial lung diseases represent a heterogeneous and wide group of diseases in which factors leading to disease initiation and progression are not fully understood.
Gramegna, Andrea +29 more
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Background 18F-FDG PET/CT has proven to be a reliable tool for therapy monitoring in sarcoidosis. Previous PET studies investigated the SUVmax as a marker for disease activity. Total lung glycolysis (TLuG) is a new tool, quantifying the glycolysis of the
Milou C. Schimmelpennink +3 more
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Clusters of comorbidities in fibrotic hypersensitivity pneumonitis
Background Hypersensitivity pneumonitis (HP) is a type of interstitial lung disease (ILD) with a variable disease course and prognosis ranging from inflammatory and self-limiting to irreversible and progressive pulmonary fibrosis.
Thomas Skovhus Prior +4 more
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